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Category: Amazon EC2

Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points

How to use Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points to streamline and reduce the cost of writing across AWS Regions

Large global organizations often struggle to efficiently manage data copies across different geographic regions when using distributed object storage services. Although several approaches exist for cross-region data writing, common solutions such as data replication or streaming can be costly and introduce latency issues. Many customers have core services deployed globally across multiple Amazon Web Services […]

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

Getting started with self-managed Oracle in AWS using Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

Organizations of all sizes run their enterprise applications and databases in the cloud. These organizations may choose to run self-managed databases on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) rather than using the fully-managed Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) due to internal policies, Amazon RDS service maximums, and other reasons. When running self-managed databases in the cloud, there […]

Amazon S3 Tables

Faster threat detection at scale: Real-time cybersecurity graph analytics with PuppyGraph and Amazon S3 Tables

Modern cybersecurity teams are facing unprecedented challenges in data analysis by the scale, complexity, and velocity of data. Cloud environments continuously generate massive amounts information in form of access logs, configuration changes, alerts, and telemetry. Traditional analysis methods of looking at these data points in isolation can’t effectively detect threats such as lateral movement and […]

How Uniphore achieved 30% cost savings by modernizing Windows servers on AWS

Uniphore is the first built-for-scale, AI-native company that infuses AI into every part of the enterprise experience. Uniphore’s enterprise-class multimodal AI and data platform unifies all elements of voice, video, text, and data by using generative AI, Knowledge AI, Emotion AI, and workflow automation together as trusted co-pilot. Uniphore was running one of their core […]

Amazon S3 Tables

Query Amazon S3 Tables from open source Trino using Apache Iceberg REST endpoint

Organizations are increasingly focused on addressing the growing challenge of managing and analyzing vast data volumes, while making sure that their data teams have timely access to this data to enable rapid insights and decision-making. Data analysts and scientists need self-service analytics capabilities to build and maintain data products, often involving complex transformations and frequent […]

SAN boot your Amazon EC2 enterprise environments from Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Traditionally, many enterprises and organizations with on-premises infrastructure have used boot-from-SAN (Storage Area Network) rather than using locally attached storage. Booting from SAN offers centralized management and backup of boot volumes, supports high availability through multipathing, and enables greater flexibility by allowing systems to boot from pre-configured OS images hosted on a shared storage array […]

Enable item-level search and recovery for Amazon EC2 with AWS Backup

Users often use backups to help recover data after a disaster or security incident. However, what is often overlooked is the need to restore data due to an operational incident such as a data corruption event or deleted file. The ability to identify files and directories within a backup and restore them is an important […]

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Best practice configuration of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for Microsoft SQL Server workloads

When it comes to running enterprise workloads, Microsoft SQL Server sits at the heart of many of these solutions providing the data needed to drive important business decisions. However, what is often not considered is the storage service underpinning the delivery of that critical data, and with the right tools and management applied, how that […]

Amazon S3 Tables

How to consume tabular data from Amazon S3 Tables for insights and business reporting

When was the last time you found yourself trying to look at rows and rows of data in a spreadsheet struggling to interpret and draw conclusions? Many analysts and engineers experience the same challenge every day. Whether it’s analyzing sales trends, monitoring operational metrics, or understanding customer behavior, the challenge lies not just in interpreting […]

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Expedite VMware migration to Amazon EC2 and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP using the BlueXP workload factory migration advisor

Over the past two decades, virtualization, specifically VMware was the key technology trend that has helped organizations reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, and simplify infrastructure management. However, the technology landscape is rapidly evolving. Cloud service providers now offer advanced hypervisor capabilities that match or exceed traditional on-premises virtualization solutions, while providing seamless integration with a […]