AWS Storage Blog
Category: Foundational (100)
Accessing your file workloads from on premises with File Gateway
Our customers tell us that they face many challenges for their on-premises file workloads. Growing infrastructure costs, storage capacity limits, upcoming warranty renewals, insufficient data protection, and a never-ending cycle of hardware refreshes have them considering new approaches. When looking at replacement solutions in the cloud, there are often concerns of latency and ability to […]
How Ryanair used S3 Object Lambda to deliver their COVID-19 wallet
Ryanair Holdings plc, Europe’s largest airline group, is the parent company of Buzz, Lauda, Malta Air and Ryanair. Carrying 149 m guests p.a. (pre Covid-19) on more than 2,500 daily flights from over 80 bases, the Group connects over 225 destinations in 37 countries on a fleet of 450 aircraft, with a further 210 Boeing […]
Amazon S3 cost optimization for predictable and dynamic access patterns
Many customers of all sizes and industries tell us they are growing at an unprecedented scale – both their business and their data. Amazon S3 enables any developer to leverage Amazon’s own benefits at a massive scale with no up-front investment or performance compromises. Customers love the elasticity and agility they get with S3 because […]
Simplify SQL Server Always On deployments with AWS Launch Wizard and Amazon FSx
Configuring and deploying your high availability Microsoft SQL Server workloads in the cloud often requires identifying and provisioning individual resources to get started, which can bring added complexity and cost. AWS Launch Wizard for SQL Server enables quick and easy deployment of SQL Server solutions on AWS, supporting Always On Availability Groups and single node […]
Explore how data lakes drive decisions with Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec and Tomer Shiran
“Fundamentally, every business today is a data business.” – Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec In today’s interconnected and digital world, businesses must make decisions quickly, and they must be right. To stay competitive, companies have to leverage data lakes as the foundation for agile business decision making, analytics, and even AI/ML decisions. At the core of this […]
AWS Backup is now FedRAMP High approved for your compliance and data protection needs
Meeting compliance is an important consideration when moving data to the cloud, and data protection is a key requirement when gaining approval for regulated workloads. On March 29, 2021 AWS Backup was granted the FedRAMP High Authority to Operate (ATO) by the JAB (Joint Authorization Board) in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Backup enables you […]
Optimize file storage migration to AWS using AWS DataSync and Amazon FSx
When migrating from on premises to the cloud, a wide spectrum of customers face starkly different starting points. Some customers may have one or two workloads stored on premises, while others may have several storage arrays across several data centers, and others have even more intricate or vast setups. If you are migrating to the […]
Webair addresses unique backup needs with AWS Storage Gateway and Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
Webair is a managed cloud and infrastructure solutions provider, specializing in cloud-based solutions such as Hosted Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, and Backups-as-a-Service. As a service provider, our customers task us with safeguarding over 30 PB of sensitive data and 10,000 servers, which inherently poses unique challenges. Not only do Webair’s backup services protect […]
Lower your Amazon EFS costs by 47% with One Zone storage classes
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a simple, serverless, set-and-forget, elastic file system that provides high levels of durability and availability for your mission critical and business critical applications. For workloads that don’t need the highest levels of durability and availability, customers typically do not require the Multi-AZ (Availability Zone) durability and availability of […]
Architecting for high availability on Amazon S3
Amazon S3 has now surpassed 15 years of operation and has scaled to more than 100 trillion objects. AWS has scaled S3’s hardware infrastructure while continuously deploying software for new features and updates, all while maintaining the high availability that customers require. High availability is an important pillar of S3 – customers should be able […]