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PingCAP increased TiDB Cloud stability using Amazon EBS detailed performance statistics

PingCAP is a global company focused on developing distributed, high-performance, and auto scaling relational databases. Its flagship product, TiDB, is a popular open source databases, and TiDB Cloud, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) based on TiDB, delivers horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability for high-performance applications. Many PingCAP customers run highly latency-sensitive workloads such […]

Using File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) on Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Customers in regulated industries like Government, Financial Services, and Insurance need advanced data controls to meet legal, regulatory, and operational requirements for managing and governing their file data. In addition, customers with complex storage environments like large enterprises, System Integrator (SI) partners, and multi-tenant SaaS providers need streamlined ways to manage data and implement fine-grained […]

Scan backups for malware with Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup

Data loss events from malware attacks can compromise your backups, putting your recovery strategy at risk. Organizations rely on backups as a critical defense against data loss, but these same backups can inadvertently preserve malware that has infiltrated production systems without being detected and removed. When malicious events occur, customers face a significant challenge: determining […]

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 […]

Automated cost-effective archiving and on-demand data restoration

Organizations across industries need automated cost-effective archiving and on-demand data restoration solutions to manage explosive data growth driven by digital transformation, regulatory compliance, and operational insights. This data—often stored as unstructured files—is frequently retained for extended periods to meet internal, legal, or analytical requirements. As storage volumes grow into the petabyte range, businesses face a […]

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 FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Cost-optimized file storage with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Komprise

As enterprises pursue digital transformation and smart operations, they’re challenged by the limitations of traditional file systems. Machine-generated data from connected systems and automation has pushed legacy storage solutions beyond their capabilities. In manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, financial services, and other industries, organizations need reliable access to data across globally distributed locations. These organizations face rising […]

Encrypt AWS Backup logically air-gapped vaults with customer-managed keys

Organizations in regulated industries often mandate control over encryption keys when storing data in the cloud to meet compliance requirements. Although AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault provides secure, isolated backup storage, these customers have needed the ability to use their own AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer-managed keys (CMKs) to provide greater control of […]

Build intelligent ETL pipelines using AWS Model Context Protocol and Amazon Q

Data scientists and engineers spend hours writing complex data pipelines to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from various sources into their data lakes for data integration and creating unified data models to build business insights. The process involves understanding the source and target systems, discovering schemas, mapping source and target, writing and testing ETL […]

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Test and build application resilience using Amazon EBS latency injection

As businesses strive to build highly available applications, they must prevent disruptions that can lead to downtime and revenue loss. Robust monitoring systems help identify failures proactively, but chaos engineering has emerged as a systematic approach to building resilient systems by uncovering potential issues before they become outages. Chaos engineering is especially critical for storage […]