AWS Storage Blog
Category: Thought Leadership
Designing for multi-account scenarios using AWS Disaster Recovery Service
Disaster recovery (DR) plays an important role in the overall business continuity strategy of an organization. When implementing a DR solution, you must understand business drivers along with any governance, security, and operational requirements that influence the final solution. For example, organizations may have a requirement to maintain different accounts for security isolation, control cost […]
Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: The “extend” cloud data pattern
As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation Talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on “Extend” which is an emerging data pattern. You can also watch this four-minute video clip on the Extend data pattern if interested. Many companies find great success with the […]
Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: The “aggregate” cloud data pattern
As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on the “Aggregate” cloud data pattern, which is the most commonly adopted across AWS customers. You can also watch this six-minute video clip on the Aggregate data pattern for a […]
Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: The “curate” cloud data pattern
As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on the “Curate” data pattern, which we have seen more AWS customers adopt in the last 12-18 months as they look to leverage data sets for both analytics and AI […]
Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: Aggregate, curate, and extend
At AWS re:Invent, I do an Innovation Talk on the emerging data trends that shape the direction of cloud data strategies. Last year, I talked about Putting Your Data to Work with Generative AI, which not only covered how data is used with foundation models, but also how businesses should think about storing and classifying […]
How Amazon S3 Tables use compaction to improve query performance by up to 3 times
Today businesses managing petabytes of data must optimize storage and processing to drive timely insights while being cost-effective. Customers often choose Apache Parquet for improved storage and query performance. Additionally, customers use Apache Iceberg to organize Parquet datasets to take advantage of its database-like features such as schema evolution, time travel, and ACID transactions. Customers […]
Seamless migration from any VMware environment to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Amazon EC2
Over the last 20+ years, commercially available compute virtualization solutions such as VMware have become powerful tools used to lower costs, improve efficiency, ease management tasks, and improve on-premises flexibility. Over time, most cloud providers have added advanced storage, efficiency, and management capabilities to their hypervisors that match or exceed those available to traditional on-premises […]
Best practices for connecting your Veeam on-premises environment to Amazon S3
Many users safeguard their on-premises infrastructure with Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR). This is done to minimize the physical backup infrastructure they need to acquire and maintain. Additionally, they seek to make sure that their backups reside in highly durable, secure, and cost-effective storage solutions. By using Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), VBR users can […]
A guide to budgeting for AWS Backup in VMware virtual environments
As VMware customers navigate the imperative to modernize their virtual environments, the need for reliable and cost-effective data protection has become paramount. Traditionally, evaluating data protection solutions has involved intricate calculations around software licensing, storage costs, and operational expenses. AWS Backup offers VMware customers a simpler, more transparent path forward. By eliminating upfront software fees […]
Designing sustainable disaster recovery strategies
Disaster recovery (DR) is an important part of resilience and defines the process of preparing and recovering from a disaster. A disaster can be defined as any event that causes a serious negative impact to your business. How you respond to these unforeseen events has traditionally been a tradeoff between the cost of the solution, […]



