Category: Best Practices

As more organizations adopt Diskless Kafka—a cloud-based messaging queue that builds entirely on object storage like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)—they gain significant cost and operational advantages. But for latency-sensitive workloads, this architecture faces a key question: how to keep millisecond-level write latency while preserving the cost benefits of S3? This is the core […]

Many organizations maintain a backup strategy built on the assumption that the backups themselves are clean. Ransomware can sit dormant in your environment for weeks, spreading across production systems while nightly backup jobs preserve it alongside your data. By the time the threat is identified, those backups are no longer recovery points; they are artifacts […]

Organizations managing thousands of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes across multiple AWS Regions have a significant cost optimization opportunity: migrating from gp2 to gp3 can deliver up to 20% savings, as highlighted by AWS Cost Optimization Hub. With AWS providing the ModifyVolume API for in-place, zero-downtime conversions, the path to savings is clear. […]

When customers choose to run self-managed Oracle databases in the cloud, one of the fundamental decisions they make is where to store their data. Although many deployments use locally attached block storage, there’s a compelling alternative: running Oracle on a network file system such as Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. Shifting database storage from local disks […]

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State-of-the-art AI agents rely on external tools to perform actions on their behalf. A tool is a function with a clear description, defined inputs, and outputs that extend the capabilities of a large language model (LLM). As toolkits expand, selecting the right tool for each task requires effective mechanisms, among which semantic search enables agents […]

Operational excellence isn’t just about efficiency, it’s about delivering consistent availability when customers need it most. Achieving this requires sophisticated, real-time monitoring that tracks key system metrics and storage insights, such as throughput patterns, IOPS utilization, I/O characteristics, and storage distribution. This visibility enables teams to resolve issues proactively, right-size resources, optimize workload placement, and […]

As users progress in their cloud journey, they increasingly need robust storage options that integrate natively with containers to help them increase operational efficiency, improve performance, and reduce costs. Our users are finding that using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) meets this demand by using the Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver. In this post, […]

Organizations face a critical challenge in data protection: how to retain ever-increasing volumes of backup data for extended periods while maintaining cost efficiency. Regulatory mandates, internal governance policies, and comprehensive disaster recovery strategies often necessitate preserving backups for months or even years. At the same time, the threat landscape continues to evolve, with sophisticated ransomware […]

As enterprises pursue digital transformation and smart operations, they’re challenged by the limitations of traditional file systems. Machine-generated data from connected systems and automation has pushed legacy storage solutions beyond their capabilities. In manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, financial services, and other industries, organizations need reliable access to data across globally distributed locations. These organizations face rising […]