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Enhancing data availability and scalability using Veritas Alta Application Resiliency with Amazon EBS

It’s no secret that the increased adoption of cloud computing has transformed the way enterprises are managing and protecting their mission critical applications and data. Security and compliance becomes a shared responsibility between cloud providers and their customers. The shared model helps clarify which aspects the cloud provider is responsible for, and which aspects fall […]

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Find public Amazon S3 buckets in your AWS account

Data is key to business, and securing it from unintended access is a critical business activity. As cloud usage increases, this can be a significant task to address. You want to verify that you aren’t unintentionally exposing or sharing data publicly. Under the Shared Responsibility Model, AWS is responsible for protecting the infrastructure that runs […]

S3 Security

Disabling ACLs for existing Amazon S3 workloads with information in S3 server access logs and AWS CloudTrail

Access control lists (ACLs) are permission sets that define user access, and the operations users can take on specific resources. Amazon S3 was launched in 2006 with ACLs as its first authorization mechanism. Since 2011, Amazon S3 has also supported AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies for managing access to S3 buckets, and recommends using […]

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How Kurtosys quickly completed a massive cross-Region data migration using Amazon S3 Batch Replication

Kurtosys helps investment managers accurately deliver pain-free data and insights to their clients at scale. From client reporting and investor portals to global investment website solutions, their capabilities are focused on making marketing and client reporting teams’ lives easier. Their secure, cloud-based platform offers a set of easy-to-use tools designed to save clients time and […]

S3 cost optimization

Reducing AWS Key Management Service costs by up to 99% with Amazon S3 Bucket Keys

Customers across many industries face increasingly stringent audit and compliance requirements on data security and privacy. Certain compliance frameworks, such as FISMA, FEDRAMP, PCI DSS, and SOC 2, have specific regulatory standards for validating the security of systems. A common requirement for these compliance frameworks is more rigorous encryption standards for data-at-rest, where organizations must […]

Best practices for monitoring Amazon FSx for Lustre clients and file systems

Lustre is a high-performance parallel file system commonly used in workloads requiring throughput up to hundreds of GB/s and sub-millisecond per-operation latencies, such as machine learning (ML), high performance computing (HPC), video processing, and financial modelling. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage with the scalability and performance of the popular Lustre file […]

Amazon FSx for NetApp OnTAP

Create a cross-platform distributed file system with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Due to need to control costs in the face of exponential data growth, doing more with existing on-premise resources while minimizing their growth has become ever more important. Most organizations would like to enjoy the benefits of the cloud while leveraging their existing on-premise file assets to create a highly resilient hybrid enterprise file share. […]

Maximizing price performance for big data workloads using Amazon EBS

Since the emergence of big data over a decade ago, Hadoop ­– an open-source framework that is used to efficiently store and process large datasets – has been crucial in storing, analyzing, and reducing that data to provide value for enterprises. Hadoop lets you store structured, partially structured, or unstructured data of any kind across […]

How Goldman Sachs leverages AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3

As a multinational investment bank and financial services company, Goldman Sachs (GS) stores diverse datasets at scale that must always be accessible whilst remaining secure and compliant with regulations and requirements. As a part of its process, Goldman Sachs leverages Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) to provide secure environments for deployment of resources within AWS, […]

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Retrieving previous versions of S3 bucket policies

When dealing with applications or storage, it is often helpful to log previous policy configurations and have the ability to retrieve them. This can help you managed and troubleshoot configuration changes and comply with security regulations. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket policies are resource-based policies that you can use to grant access permissions […]