AWS Storage Blog
Category: Management Tools
Simplify Active Directory authentication with a custom identity provider for AWS Transfer Family
The secure exchange of files business-to-business is a common and important business practice in highly regulated industries. As organizations grow, maintaining separate user credentials for various platforms, such as file transfer services, can become increasingly complex and time-consuming. As customers build out Managed File Transfer (MFT) environments, often they end up having to create separate, […]
How London Stock Exchange Group migrated 30 PB of market data using AWS DataSync
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has 30 PB of Tick History-PCAP data, which is ultra-high-quality global market data that is based on raw exchange data, timestamped to the nanosecond. An additional 60 TB is generated every day. LSEG sought to migrate their data from Wasabi cloud storage, LSEG was looking for a new solution to […]
Monitoring AWS Storage Gateway health and performance using Amazon CloudWatch
When managing a hybrid-cloud infrastructure, monitoring system health is essential for maintaining business continuity. Setting up comprehensive monitoring provides visibility into performance and availability of infrastructure components. By establishing alert thresholds and promptly responding to alarms, administrators can identify degraded performance or outages early. Quickly diagnosing and fixing the issues maximizes uptime. AWS Storage Gateway, […]
A Pilot Light disaster recovery strategy for WordPress
In today’s digital ecosystem, maintaining an uninterrupted online presence and resilience is essential for businesses. WordPress platforms, whether e-commerce sites or news portals, must not only meet but exceed stringent Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) to maintain user trust, ensure continuity, and protect revenue. These SLAs, defining Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), […]
DoorDash saves millions annually using Amazon S3 Storage Lens
DoorDash connects consumers with their favorite local businesses in more than 25 countries across the globe. A born-in-the-cloud company, DoorDash hosts the majority of its infrastructure, including its commerce platform, on AWS. This platform powers the ecosystem of customers placing orders, merchants fulfilling orders, and dashers performing deliveries. DoorDash’s platform was built to achieve the […]
Deploying Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP using AWS CloudFormation
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the efficient management and accessibility of data stand as pivotal challenge for businesses. For a global team to efficiently collaborate on a project, they require a shared file storage that supports multiple protocols, robust data management features, and dependable data integrity. When deploying infrastructure repeatedly or in different environments, it […]
Deploying Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP using HashiCorp Terraform
Deploying and managing infrastructure with all the dependencies is a challenging task. Complexity easily multiplies when you add multiple environments to the equation. Manual infrastructure management leads to valuable time spent deploying the infrastructure rather than adding business value. This is assuming that the deployment is successful without any errors in the first attempt. Infrastructure-as-Code […]
Maintaining object immutability by automatically extending Amazon S3 Object Lock retention periods
Protecting against accidental or malicious deletion is a key element of data protection. Immutability protects data in-place, preventing unintended changes or deletions. However, sometimes it isn’t clear for how long data should be made immutable. Users in this situation are looking for a solution that maintains short-term immutability, indefinitely. They want to make sure their […]
Streamline data management at scale by automating the creation of Amazon S3 Batch Operations jobs
Over time, Enterprises may need to undertake operations or make modifications to their data as part of general data management, to address changing business needs, or to comply with evolving data-management regulations and best practices. As datasets being generated, stored, and analyzed continue to grow exponentially, the need for simplified, scalable, and reproduceable data management […]
Automating application-consistent Amazon EBS Snapshots for SAP HANA databases
Customers host their SAP HANA environments on AWS to run their business-critical processes, such as financial planning, data analytics, and supply chain management. Reliably backing up data in SAP HANA is paramount for users to restore the database in the event of disruptions and urgent business needs. To reliably back up SAP HANA, SAP documentation […]