AWS Storage Blog
Category: Networking & Content Delivery
Introducing private DNS support for Amazon S3 with AWS PrivateLink
Compliance requirements often mandate private connectivity when on-premises applications use cloud storage. To satisfy these requirements, customers set up private connections to Amazon S3 using AWS PrivateLink over either AWS Direct Connect, or AWS Site-to-Site VPN. As a result, data is transmitted directly to and from AWS, never traversing the public internet. AWS PrivateLink lets […]
Understanding Direct Network Interfaces on AWS Snow Family
To leverage the benefits of modern software development and automation, the telecommunications industry (telco) commonly employs containerized network functions (NF). The containerized environment demands certain requirements from the underlying infrastructure as opposed to a legacy monolithic IT workload. For example, a single network interface is reused for multiple workflows: network operations and maintenance (O&M) traffic, […]
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, […]
How Audible uses Amazon S3 Object Lambda to improve streaming playback performance
Audible is a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling that offers its customers a new way to enhance and enrich their lives daily. Audible content includes over 790,000 audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals. Audible has millions of members worldwide, who subscribe to one of 10 localized services designed for customers in Australia, Canada, France, […]
Building a disaster recovery site on AWS for workloads on Microsoft Azure
Some enterprises run their IT operations using a multi-cloud environment, often for compliance, cost, or redundancy reasons. At times, these enterprises may be required to host a copy of their data, or even a full disaster recovery (DR) solution, on another cloud provider to provide an additional layer of protection. In this post, we show […]
Disaster recovery for VMware Cloud on AWS using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Disasters due to natural calamities, application failures, service failures, human errors, or ransomware cause downtime for business applications as well as data loss and revenue impact. To help prepare for potential outages, companies running VMware on-premises are increasingly incorporating VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) into their hybrid cloud strategy. Disaster recovery (DR) is also a vital […]
Route traffic to an Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Multi-AZ file system using Network Load Balancer
Update (3/13/2023): When creating a target group, the Network Load Balancer currently verifies that the target IP is part of a subnet in the specified VPC, which means the approach outlined in this blog cannot be employed anymore. A core architecture principle of building highly available applications on AWS is to use a multi-Availability Zone […]
How Arc XP lowered data transfer costs by $500k per year with Amazon CloudFront and Lambda@Edge on AWS
The Washington Post, an American daily newspaper company, delivers digital news content using Arc XP’s digital experience platform. Arc XP originated in The Post and has grown into a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business used by publishers, broadcasters, and brands to create, host, and monetize engaging content for over 1,500 websites globally. Photo Center is an Arc […]
How TMAP Mobility transferred 2.4 PB of Hadoop data using AWS DataSync
Launched in 2002, TMAP Mobility is Korea’s leading mobility platform, with 20 million registered users and 14 million monthly active users. TMAP provides navigation services based on a wide range of real-time traffic information and data. Previously, the Data Intelligence group at TMAP Mobility operated a mobility-data platform based on a Hadoop Distributed File System […]
Modify images cached in Amazon CloudFront using Amazon S3 Object Lambda
Delivering optimized content is critical to a positive end user experience. As data access requirements evolve, the end user may need a transformed version of the original content. The transformations may include masking an image’s metadata, watermarking, or resizing an image before returning it to the user. The object should be stored in its original […]