AWS Storage Blog

Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

Amazon EBS

Enhancing resource-level permission for creating an Amazon EBS volume from a snapshot

Businesses use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots to capture point-in-time copies of application data volumes that can serve as baseline standards when creating new volumes. This enables them to quickly launch application workloads in different AWS Regions or meet data protection and disaster recovery requirements. Security and regulatory compliance remain top priorities as […]

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Design patterns for multi-tenant access control on Amazon S3

Large organizations and software as a service (SaaS) platforms often share storage resources across multiple users, groups, or tenants. The design pattern chosen to implement this shared storage can significantly impact how access permissions are managed at scale. This decision is key because it directly affects platforms’ security and ease of scale. A well thought […]

Figure 1: Multi-region FSx for NetApp ONTAP with SnapMirror replication for SQL Server DR

Archiving relational databases to Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes for cost optimization

Many customers are growing their data footprints rapidly, with significantly more data stored in their relational database management systems (RDBMS) than ever before. Additionally, organizations subject to data compliance including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are often required […]

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Enhance business continuity within an Availability Zone using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

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 […]

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Enhance resource selection in AWS Backup Policies in AWS Organizations

In today’s digital landscape, businesses rely on consistent and secure backups for data protection and disaster recovery (DR). A centralized backup policy enables organizations to enforce uniform data protection standards across departments and workloads, helping to maintain compliance and minimize risks. In the cloud, organizations use backup policies to manage data protection from a central […]

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How Delhivery migrated 500 TB of data across AWS Regions using Amazon S3 Replication

Delhivery is one of the largest third-party logistics providers in India. It fulfills millions of packages every day, servicing over 18,000 pin codes in India and powered by more than 20 automated sort centers, 90 warehouses, with over 2800 delivery centers. Data is at the core of the Delhivery’s business. In anticipating of potential regulatory […]

Amazon S3 LIfecycle

Transition data to cheaper storage based on custom filtering criteria with Amazon S3 Lifecycle

As your organization’s data grows, effective management of storage costs is crucial for operating an efficient and cost-effective data infrastructure. One of the most efficient strategies to reduce storage costs is transitioning files to less expensive cold storage classes. To optimize storage costs according to their specific needs and requirements, organizations need the flexibility to […]

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Restrict access to your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP volumes using export policies

Users who support multi-tenant environments need shared storage platforms that can securely isolate data between clients. For example, imagine a pharmaceutical company with several divisions, each working on different product lines. Storage administrators need to prevent one division from viewing or accessing the files and data from the projects of the others. They use export […]

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Automatically scan for public Amazon S3 buckets and block public access

Data is a valuable asset for an organization and users are always looking for simple tools to protect their data from unauthorized access. While some use cases do require data to be publicly accessible at times, most enterprise use cases and data privacy depend on strictly managed permissions and no public access. Enterprises use Amazon […]

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Simplify Active Directory authentication with a custom identity provider for AWS Transfer Family

The secure exchange of files business-to-business is a common and important business practice in highly regulated industries. As organizations grow, maintaining separate user credentials for various platforms, such as file transfer services, can become increasingly complex and time-consuming. As customers build out Managed File Transfer (MFT) environments, often they end up having to create separate, […]