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Category: Migration & Transfer Services

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How to accelerate your data transfers with AWS DataSync scale out architectures

Do you ever wonder how you can keep up with incoming requests for increased storage capacity without having to expand data center footprint, increase utility spend, and continually handle hardware refresh cycles? Customers are looking to free up space from on-premises storage systems or other clouds, whether it is for existing archival datasets, transitioning their […]

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­­Encrypt and decrypt files with PGP and AWS Transfer Family

1/11/2024: Updates made due to CloudShell migration to Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). Protecting sensitive data is not a novel idea. Customers in industries like financial services and healthcare regularly exchange files containing sensitive data, including Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and financial records with their users. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption of these files is often […]

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How Regeneron built a secure and scalable file transfer service using AWS Transfer Family

Secure and fast transfer of mission critical data is a top priority for today’s digital businesses. Fueled by the expectation of “anywhere, anytime information”, any type of delay impacts operational efficiency and effectiveness, making a scalable and secure data transfer solution a priority. Healthcare and life sciences organizations need a secure, compliant and scalable File […]

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How Globe Telecom used AWS DataSync at scale to migrate 7.2 PB of Hadoop data

Data migration is a critical first step for an organization in their cloud journey. It often requires a lift and shift of business-critical applications, databases, data analytics workloads, data warehouses, big data, and trained artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) models. The data is generated and stored in different layers causing complexity in the migration process. Due […]

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Using AWS Systems Manager to upgrade from CloudEndure Disaster Recovery to AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is the recommended service for disaster recovery to AWS. It’s the next generation of CloudEndure Disaster Recovery (CEDR), as CloudEndure Disaster Recovery technology was used to build Elastic Disaster Recovery. Now you can upgrade replicating source servers from CloudEndure Disaster Recovery to Elastic Disaster Recovery. This is accomplished via the CEDR Server […]

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Creating an ETL pipeline trigger for existing AWS DataSync tasks

Organizations look for ways to leverage the compute power of the cloud to analyze their data and produce reports to help drive business decisions. They want to load their data sets into extract-transform-load (ETL) pipelines for data processing. Once the data is processed, business decision makers at these organizations rely on accurate report generation to […]

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Migrating Azure Blob Storage to Amazon S3 using AWS DataSync

UPDATE (7/25/2023): AWS DataSync now supports copying data to and from Azure Blob Storage, view the what’s new post and view our video for more information. UPDATE (3/26/2024): When deploying the AWS DataSync agent, this repository contains a script designed to convert the DataSync Agent VHDX to VHD on Amazon Linux 2 (AL2), and upload […]

Data migration and cost saving at scale with Amazon S3 File Gateway

Migrating data to the cloud requires experience with different data types and the ability to preserve source data structure and metadata attributes. Customers often have on-premises file data stored on traditional file servers, retaining original timestamp of data creation for varying reasons including data lifecycle management. Customers find it challenging to identify a path to […]

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Automate Amazon S3 File Gateway deployments in VMware with Terraform by HashiCorp

Many customers have adopted an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) process within their organization to streamline and optimize provisioning infrastructure. Without an IaC practice in place, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage the scale of today’s infrastructure. IaC can help your organization manage IT infrastructure needs while also improving consistency and reducing errors and manual configuration. […]

Use cases for Amazon EFS Replication

Organizations in regulated industries are frequently required to maintain a copy of their business-critical file data in another location to meet corporate compliance or disaster recovery (DR) mandates. Furthermore, in highly distributed environments, applications need a reliable method to move or copy their file data to a different location for low latency access or to […]