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Securing your Amazon FSx for ONTAP Windows Share (SMB) against Viruses
Organizations want to securely store and access their data, while adhering to security best practices by deploying and enforcing various policies. This includes using antivirus programs to scan and disinfect data at rest and on-access to help align with various compliance standards. Since the release of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, many customers are migrating […]
A guide to budgeting for AWS Backup in VMware virtual environments
As VMware customers navigate the imperative to modernize their virtual environments, the need for reliable and cost-effective data protection has become paramount. Traditionally, evaluating data protection solutions has involved intricate calculations around software licensing, storage costs, and operational expenses. AWS Backup offers VMware customers a simpler, more transparent path forward. By eliminating upfront software fees […]
Automatically scan for public Amazon S3 buckets and block public access
Data is a valuable asset for an organization and users are always looking for simple tools to protect their data from unauthorized access. While some use cases do require data to be publicly accessible at times, most enterprise use cases and data privacy depend on strictly managed permissions and no public access. Enterprises use Amazon […]
Secure data in a multi-tenant environment by automatically enforcing prefix-level encryption keys in Amazon S3
Many organizations need to store and process data that belong to multiple entities, commonly referred to as multi-tenancy. In these situations, it is important to secure every tenant’s data and ensure that a consumer can only access the data that they require for their responsibilities and nothing more. In particular, if a user or application […]
Simplify Active Directory authentication with a custom identity provider for AWS Transfer Family
The secure exchange of files business-to-business is a common and important business practice in highly regulated industries. As organizations grow, maintaining separate user credentials for various platforms, such as file transfer services, can become increasingly complex and time-consuming. As customers build out Managed File Transfer (MFT) environments, often they end up having to create separate, […]
Establish private connectivity for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery using AWS Direct Connect
As the size of an organization’s disaster recovery (DR) implementation grows, we often see the role of the network grow in importance. The relationship between DR and the network should not come as a surprise, as we expect network performance and the ability to replicate data between the source environment and the DR site to […]
How DXC creates application consistent EBS Snapshots for Linux
Large enterprises run mission critical applications on AWS. These applications can have hundreds of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Backing up Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes is a requirement for these applications for use cases such as disaster recovery, application recovery, rollback, compliance and audit. Stringent data consistency and integrity are […]
Attach an Amazon EC2 key pair to an AWS Backup restore of a VMware virtual machine
Customers run thousands of VMware virtual machines on premises, in VMware Cloud on AWS, and VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts. They use AWS Backup to centrally manage data protection of these VMware environments. Customers, who initiate an Amazon EC2 restore from an AWS Backup for VMware recovery point, encounter a situation where there is no […]
Migrate large HPC datasets from the edge to the cloud then synchronize continuously
Organizations running high-performance computing (HPC) workloads on premises often want to move data to the cloud to leverage scalability, performance, cost optimization, and other benefits of the cloud. For edge locations with limited or no available network bandwidth, online migrations can take a long time or be impossible. In locations where there is limited bandwidth […]
Use generative AI to query your Amazon S3 data lake for insights
Businesses store large volumes of data in their data lakes and rely on this data to extract insights and make important business decisions. However, business stakeholders sometimes lack the technical skills required to run complex queries against their data lakes. Instead, they rely on data scientists or analysts to build reports and dashboards or to […]