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Most organizations closely track their spending to ensure that their resources are being used efficiently. Tracking how much different business units are spending provides crucial insights into the efficacy of certain types of spending to an organizations goals or bottom line. An IT chargeback system assigns the costs of services to the business units or […]

Verifying data integrity during a data migration or data transfer is a data durability best practice that ensures your data is error-free and not corrupt as it reaches its destination. One way to verify the integrity of your data is through checksums, which you can basically think of as a digital fingerprint for data that […]

Kubernetes is a popular choice among many developers for application deployments, and many of these deployments can benefit from a persistent, shared storage layer. Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is a managed OpenShift integration on AWS developed by Red Hat and jointly supported by AWS and Red Hat. ROSA clusters typically store data […]

Enterprises are always looking for ways to optimize storage performance to support their performance-intensive applications and workloads. One technique is data striping, which involves segmenting data across multiple storage volumes to aggregate maximum logical capacity and increase performance. The technique is useful for workloads that require high levels of input/output operations per second (IOPS) and/or […]

Update (February 23, 2023): No additional licensing is required to use SnapCenter software with FSx for NetApp ONTAP. See instructions on how to sign up for a NetApp account in our updated FSx for ONTAP user guide. SQL Server deployments need application-consistent backups and the ability to quickly restore or clone databases for development, testing, […]

Many customers have adopted an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) process within their organization to streamline and optimize provisioning infrastructure. Without an IaC practice in place, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage the scale of today’s infrastructure. IaC can help your organization manage IT infrastructure needs while also improving consistency and reducing errors and manual configuration. […]

Many companies are moving their workloads to AWS to benefit from its highly resilient, cost-effective nature. Although the cloud is highly resilient, it’s still beneficial to prepare for rare, but highly impactful disaster scenarios. Some companies want to put a disaster recovery (DR) solution in place but must maintain secure and private connectivity for security […]

Storage administrators who are using managed services need a way to monitor the health of their resources, in order to detect any changes in resource health or accessibility that might require their attention or intervention. For administrators managing large fleets of resources, this monitoring needs to be efficient and scalable so that any alerts are […]

Update (3/13/2023): When creating a target group, the Network Load Balancer currently verifies that the target IP is part of a subnet in the specified VPC, which means the approach outlined in this blog cannot be employed anymore. A core architecture principle of building highly available applications on AWS is to use a multi-Availability Zone […]

Update (12/12/2022): Depending on your specific RTO and RPO requirements, we recommend evaluating the use of Elastic Disaster Recovery along with database native replication methods, such as SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) for SAP HANA. Disasters due to natural calamities, application failures, human errors, or ransomware cause not only downtime for business applications, but also […]