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Amazon S3 Glacier Storage Classes

Analyze access patterns and use the most cost-effective Amazon S3 storage class

Businesses that use data lakes, machine learning (ML), and analytics need scalable data storage. However, not all stored data is accessed equally. Some portions of data may be accessed often, while whereas other portions of data are rarely accessed. Modern cloud storage allows users to move infrequently used, cold data to lower-cost storage classes. This […]

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Protecting your critical Amazon EBS volumes using AWS Backup

Enterprises use block storage such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for mission-critical workloads because it provides high performance, low latency, and reliable data access needed for demanding applications like databases, ERP systems, and real-time analytics. As EBS volumes often contain critical application data, configurations, or operating system files, backing up and restoring these […]

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How Aura improves database performance using Amazon S3 Express One Zone for caching

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Lyrebird improves performance and reduces costs for generative AI workloads using Amazon S3 Express One Zone

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Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Automate monitoring at scale for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP volumes

User files are increasingly growing in number and size. Maintaining and managing file growth can be challenging without an effective set of tools and automation that scales with your data growth. Customers agree that visibility is key for managing existing files and for developing a plan to support future growth. Amazon CloudWatch is a service […]

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Restrict access to your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP volumes using export policies

Users who support multi-tenant environments need shared storage platforms that can securely isolate data between clients. For example, imagine a pharmaceutical company with several divisions, each working on different product lines. Storage administrators need to prevent one division from viewing or accessing the files and data from the projects of the others. They use export […]

Direct Supply bolsters availability migrating to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Direct Supply, the leading provider of products and services to the Long-Term Care industry, migrated the bulk of our IT systems to AWS in early 2019. In the run-up to our cut over, we had five Server Message Block (SMB) file systems that needed to live alongside the applications they support. This meant that roughly […]

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Building cyber resiliency with AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault

Enterprise users use AWS Backup for centralized data protection as part of a defense-in-depth architecture. Its features generally fulfill users’ data security and regulatory requirements, but there is demand for additional resiliency against ransomware incidents. Meeting the recovery objectives often involves creating multiple copies of data backups, developing and maintaining custom code for backup processes, […]

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How Vivian Health is using Amazon S3 Express One Zone to accelerate healthcare hiring

Vivian Health connects travel nurses with job opportunities across the country. To do that, the platform has innovated not just the job search itself, but also the tooling used by recruiters and hiring managers to get qualified candidates matched to the right job and placed as quickly and as seamlessly as possible. However, the process […]

How Teradata improved system availability using Amazon EBS Multi-Attach NVMe reservations

Teradata, an AWS Partner, is a leading cloud data analytics provider with two high performance data processing and analytics solutions: VantageCloud Enterprise and VantageCloud Lake. These Teradata solutions are backed by a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) database and a shared-nothing architecture where each node operates independently with dedicated resources such as CPU, memory, and storage. […]