Category: Technical How-to

According to a study by the International Data Corporation (IDC), the global datasphere is expected to grow from 33 zettabytes (ZB) in 2018 to 175 ZB by 2025, a staggering five-fold increase. Organizations that leverage distributed architectures generate a significant portion of their data footprint from observability data, including application logs, metrics, and traces, which […]

In today’s data-driven world, safeguarding critical information stored in Oracle databases is crucial for enterprises. Companies struggle to efficiently backing up vast amounts of data from hundreds of databases powering enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and critical applications. These backups must be secure, durable, and easily restorable to ensure business continuity, guard against ransomware, and […]

Operational teams play a crucial role in making sure of the readiness and reliability of a disaster recovery (DR) solution. When these teams don’t have direct access to monitor the resources and services that make up a solution, it can create significant challenges. Logs provide insights into system behaviors, performance, and potential anomalies. When operations […]

Recovering data after a disaster or a ransomware incident headlines today’s news. But in the day-to-day, you are more likely to recover a file from a directory than to restore an entire data set. However, doing so without being able to search and restore the specific items you need can be tedious and time-consuming. It’s […]

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we recommend running workloads across multiple Availability Zones (AZ) for high availability and fault tolerance. However, there are certain situations where users need to run their workloads in a single AZ. These include legacy or commercial off the shelf (COTS) applications that don’t support deployments across multiple AZ, workloads that […]

Object storage provides virtually unlimited scalability, but managing billions, or even trillions, of objects can pose significant challenges. How do you know what data you have? How can you find the right datasets at the right time? By implementing a robust metadata management strategy, you can answer these questions, gain better control over massive data […]

UPDATE (12/19/2024): Added guidance for Amazon EMR setup. Customers commonly use Apache Iceberg today to manage ever-growing volumes of data. Apache Iceberg’s relational database transaction capabilities (ACID transactions) help customers deal with frequent updates, deletions, and the need for transactional consistency across datasets. However, getting the most out of Apache Iceberg tables and running it […]

As businesses increasingly rely on latency-sensitive applications for mission-critical workloads, the need to understand performance across the entire technology stack is essential to swiftly resolve performance bottlenecks that could affect application efficiency. Given that storage performance and stability directly impact application efficiency, reliability, scalability, and user experience, it is paramount for organizations to have the […]

Many businesses recognize the critical importance of safeguarding their essential data from potential disasters such as fires, floods, or ransomware events. Designing an effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy includes thoughtfully evaluating and selecting cost-effective solutions that fulfill compliance requirements. By using Amazon S3 features such as S3 object tags, S3 Versioning, and S3 Lifecycle, you can […]

In today’s digital era, enterprises face significant challenges in data center modernization during their digital transformation journey. Traditional on-premises solutions struggle with high costs, complex management, and data growth. Organizations with intricate file-sharing systems and user permissions face difficulties in preserving user experiences and security. The tight integration of enterprise IDCs with complex Microsoft Active […]