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Like many things in life, the more choices you have the harder it is to make a decision. While running workloads in the cloud does make some decisions easier, it doesn’t eliminate them altogether, and there are still choices you must make on how to best architect for the cloud. These decisions now center more […]

UPDATE: An updated version of this blog post was published on April 27, 2021. Please refer to that post for the most up-to-date content. Moving workloads to the cloud is one of the primary ways for CIOs to address their top strategic priorities: increasing agility, accelerating innovation, strengthening security, and reducing cost. Many companies have existing infrastructure […]

Founded in 2008, Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle with over 32 million active customers. I am a lead data engineer at Zalando and a steady contributor to the company’s cloud journey. In this blog post, I cover how Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) became a cornerstone of the data […]

In an effort to minimize the challenge of optimizing storage costs, we are pleased to announce that AWS Storage Gateway’s File Gateway now supports the Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class. Customers frequently have workloads with changing or unknown storage access patterns, making it difficult for them to determine which datasets are more frequently accessed than others. […]

There are many situations where you must run data inference close to the data sources. Often times these are located at remote, disconnected locations. Let’s consider the following examples: A remote oil drilling platform has numerous sensors that generate data. Critical components have to be monitored for wear and tear, or failure, and replacements must […]

Encryption of data at rest is increasingly required by industry protocols, government regulations, and internal organizational security standards. Encryption helps you protect your stored data against unauthorized access and other security risks. Amazon S3’s default encryption can be used to automate the encryption of new objects in your bucket, but default encryption does not change […]

Today, many AWS customers use Amazon WorkDocs to retire expensive network file shares and move content to the cloud. With WorkDocs’s pay-as-you-go pricing, customers only pay for the active user accounts on their WorkDocs site. WorkDocs not only provides secure cloud storage, but also allows users to easily share content with other internal and external […]

High-performance file systems are often divided into two types: scratch and persistent. Scratch file systems provide temporary storage with high-performance characteristics such as submillisecond latency, up to hundreds of gigabytes per second of throughput, and millions of IOPS for short-term workloads. By contrast, persistent file systems are designed to combine the performance levels of their […]

One of the biggest challenges any organization can face is how to tackle the notion of digital transformation. Even defining what that means for them and their employees can be a daunting task. For many organizations, that transformation includes a journey to the cloud and starting to examine other new (or new-ish) technologies. One lesson […]

As enterprises continue to move more of their application footprint to the cloud, they quickly realize that they need a solution for their file data. While many modern applications are built to interact with API driven storage services, like object stores, NoSQL, or graph databases (among others), there are still a large number of workloads […]