Category: Amazon EC2

In the digital era, ensuring business continuity through effective disaster recovery measures is crucial for organizations of all sizes. Setting up disaster recovery solutions manually, such as installing recovery agents on multiple servers, can be a significant and time-consuming task. Therefore, many customers are increasingly seeking automation not only to streamline common administrative tasks but […]

To leverage the benefits of modern software development and automation, the telecommunications industry (telco) commonly employs containerized network functions (NF). The containerized environment demands certain requirements from the underlying infrastructure as opposed to a legacy monolithic IT workload. For example, a single network interface is reused for multiple workflows: network operations and maintenance (O&M) traffic, […]

When I talk with customers about their file storage, I frequently get asked “How can I determine the right throughput capacity for my file storage?” The simple answer is through monitoring the performance of your workload to determine the right performance configuration for your file storage. Throughput modes for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) determine […]

When managing a fleet of Windows instances, you often need a central repository for files that can be accessed from multiple locations. Having an automatically mapped Server Message Block (SMB) file share when your end-users connect to the domain-joined instances automates the repetitive and time-consuming task of mapping file shares manually to hundreds of new […]

Organizations perform refreshes of database environments to ensure they can perform development, testing, and QA on copies of the most up-to-date, production-like datasets. In addition, IT teams are tasked with managing increasing data footprints, while maintaining the highest levels of availability, resiliency, and performance. Many customer development cycles maintain DTAP (Development, Test, Acceptance, and Production) […]

GPT, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a language model that has shown remarkable progress in various vertical industries. This technology has been used to generate human-like text in fields such as finance, healthcare, legal, marketing, and many others. In finance, GPT is being used to analyze financial data, generate reports, and assist with decision-making. In […]

Canva is an online design tool that empowers users worldwide to design, edit, and publish anything they can dream up. Canva runs most of its production workloads on AWS, using several core services, including Amazon S3, Amazon ECS, Amazon RDS, and Amazon DynamoDB. Running on AWS has helped Canva move fast and keep up with […]

When business build applications, it is crucial to monitor those applications and take measures if and when needed to avoid downtime, and potentially, revenue loss. Choosing the correct metrics to monitor and setting up alarms as needed is table stakes for customers to achieve their application resiliency and availability goals. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon […]

Enterprises can benefit significantly from optimizing block storage performance in the cloud. One of the primary benefits is having faster and more reliable data access to support critical business operations and real-time applications by achieving reduced latency and higher throughput. Another benefit is realizing cost savings by increasing storage operational efficiency to reduce the need […]

One of the most difficult challenges organizations face today is ensuring data availability and accessibility across their locations. Maintaining high availability and accessibility for SQL Server databases across different AWS Regions is a top data protection requirement for enterprises considering moving to the cloud. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP offers a quick way to fail […]