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Data preservation with AWS Backup legal holds
Customers globally, especially in regulated industries, require centralized protection and demonstrable compliance for their application data. Auditors often require customers such as broker-dealers, securities exchanges, and stock brokerage firms, to prove compliance with SEC, FINRA, and CFTC requirements by providing an assessment report from an industry-recognized entity with additional disclosure that they have capabilities to […]
Delegated administrator support for AWS Backup
[Update: 12/13/2022 – Under Step 2. Delegate backup policy in AWS Organizations console, the JSON policy paragraph and sample JSON policy were updated.] Until today, backup administrators had to use the AWS Organizations management account to administer backup policies and monitor cross-account backup activities. However, the use of the AWS Organizations management account should only […]
King Hamad University Hospital and Bahrain Oncology Center use Amazon S3 to store millions of medical images
King Hamad University Hospital (KHUH) and Bahrain Oncology Center is a 600-bed-hospital in Bahrain. Over a period of eleven years, KHUH accumulated around 1 million medical image studies, resulting in around 476 million files, with a total data volume of 48 TB. Read part 1 of the blog series to learn about the architecture King […]
Secure and process raw data transfers at scale with AWS Transfer Family
Ibexlabs is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner with 100+ AWS certifications covering four competencies and seven service delivery programs. As an AWS Partner with competencies in AWS Security and AWS Level 1 Managed Security Services, and as an AWS Well-Architected Partner, Ibexlabs applies AWS best practices to design and build cloud solutions that meet the […]
Persistent storage for Kubernetes
Stateful applications rely on data being persisted and retrieved to run properly. When running stateful applications using Kubernetes, state needs to be persisted regardless of container, pod, or node crashes or terminations. This requires persistent storage, that is, storage that lives beyond the lifetime of the container, pod, or node. In this blog, we cover […]
Run queries up to 9x faster using Trino with Amazon S3 Select on Amazon EMR
UPDATE (7/25/2024): Use Amazon Athena, S3 Object Lambda, or client-side filtering to query your data in Amazon S3. Learn more » Customers building data lakes continue to innovate in the ways that they store and access their data. For these customers, performance is critical, particularly when they are accessing large amounts of data. For example, […]
Automating disaster recovery of Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2 instances
Complex environments can sometimes feel like they require complex disaster recovery (DR) solutions, which usually consist of multiple DR offerings from different vendors that may not interact with each other. There are many ways to build a DR solution in the cloud. Luckily, with AWS, you can easily configure multiple DR services and orchestrate them […]
Restoring archived objects at scale from the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes
Update (7/26/2024): You no longer need to optimize the S3 Inventory report using Amazon Athena. Amazon S3 will automatically optimize your S3 Batch Operations restore job to achieve the fastest retrieval throughput. For more guidance on using batch operations, learn more in the S3 User Guide. Every organization around the world has archival data. There is […]
What’s in store with AWS Storage at re:Invent 2022
On behalf of the entire AWS Storage team, I am excited to welcome you to our 11th annual event, whether you’ll attend in person or virtually. AWS re:Invent 2022 is here, featuring an exciting slate of sessions on AWS Storage use cases, best practices, and technical deep dives. On-site in Vegas? Attend the AWS Storage […]
File storage access patterns insights using Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
When using Windows file services, enterprise customers often have the requirement to identify potential security breaches and unauthorized access attempts. Traditionally, customers rely on Windows file server file access auditing to capture and analyze audit records to gain these insights and strengthen their security posture. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed shared […]






