Category: Thought Leadership

Customers use VMware to power their business critical applications on premises. As they adopt cloud, they leverage VMware Cloud on AWS as a vehicle to migrate without refactoring their applications. Customers will still need to protect their application data, provide disaster recovery from events, and migrate data if needed. For a large-scale migration with limited […]

Update (4/27/2023): Amazon S3 now automatically enables S3 Block Public Access and disables S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets in all AWS Regions. Storing data securely is a key tenet for every business. Companies balance this against the need to share data where and when it’s needed. Human security review is a […]

UPDATE (8/9/2023): Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now generally available. For details, please read the What’s New post. Amazon S3 is the best place to build data lakes because of its durability, availability, scalability, and security. Hundreds of thousands of data lakes are built on S3, storing diverse sets of unstructured data for use in […]

File systems are an essential component of organizations. Among the most common requirements of any organization is access to shared data storage, which is readily available on via cloud infrastructures. An issue that has slowed migration to the cloud has been that tools and processes can be very different, requiring time to re-educate administrators. Amazon […]

Last year at re:Invent 2021 Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) released a new storage class called Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, as well as additional improvements to the Amazon S3 Glacier offerings. Many AWS Storage partners were excited about the new storage class as detailed in the blog “Storing data with AWS Partner solutions […]

In the fast-paced world of movie-making, time is money. Modern films and TV shows can have hundreds, or thousands, of Visual Effects (VFX) shots that need to be created and finalized on tight deadlines. The creation of the final images where geometry, textures, lighting, and other elements are combined for a high-resolution output, a process […]

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 […]

If you are new to AWS and trying to figure out which Storage services to use, how to use them, and best practices, it can be challenging to find guidance that you can trust. The depth of features and options means that even experienced users can identify better solutions with continuous learning. But how do […]

Storage administrators—whether they are managing user and departmental shares, high-availability databases like SQL Server, or business applications—need to understand how their workloads are performing. Understanding optimal throughput capacity, storage capacity, and storage type for your file systems helps ensure high performance and enables you to right-size your file storage to optimize cost. In addition to […]

When planning a data migration you need to evaluate migration tools, determine whether you have the available bandwidth for an online migration and understand the characteristics of the source and target destination. There are situations where you may be looking to migrate data from on-premises storage or other AWS storage services to Amazon FSx for […]