AWS Storage Blog
Category: Amazon Elastic Block Store (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 […]
Understanding and monitoring latency for Amazon EBS volumes using Amazon CloudWatch
Organizations are continuing to build latency-sensitive applications for their business-critical workloads to ensure timely data processing. To make sure that their applications are working and performing as expected, users need effective monitoring and alarming across their infrastructure stack so they can quickly respond to disruptions that may impact their businesses. Storage plays a critical role […]
Streamline search and item-level recovery with AWS Backup
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 […]
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 […]
Uncover new performance insights using Amazon EBS detailed performance statistics
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 […]
Protecting your critical Amazon EBS volumes using AWS Backup
Enterprises use block storage such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for mission-critical workloads because it provides high performance, low latency, and reliable data access needed for demanding applications like databases, ERP systems, and real-time analytics. As EBS volumes often contain critical application data, configurations, or operating system files, backing up and restoring these […]
How DXC creates application consistent EBS Snapshots for Linux
Large enterprises run mission critical applications on AWS. These applications can have hundreds of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Backing up Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes is a requirement for these applications for use cases such as disaster recovery, application recovery, rollback, compliance and audit. Stringent data consistency and integrity are […]
How Teradata improved system availability using Amazon EBS Multi-Attach NVMe reservations
Teradata, an AWS Partner, is a leading cloud data analytics provider with two high performance data processing and analytics solutions: VantageCloud Enterprise and VantageCloud Lake. These Teradata solutions are backed by a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) database and a shared-nothing architecture where each node operates independently with dedicated resources such as CPU, memory, and storage. […]
Application-consistent backup for Windows application on Amazon EC2 with AWS Backup
Many users rely on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes to run their business critical Microsoft Windows-based workloads on AWS. These critical applications often span across multiple EBS volumes attached to EC2 instances. To make sure of the integrity and recovery of such vital workloads, users […]
Global fashion e-commerce retailer shortens SQL query time by 30% using Amazon EBS io2 Block Express
A top global e-commerce retailer employs the concept of on-demand manufacturing to deliver a wide variety of affordable fashion apparel products to customers around the world. It serves end users globally with a mobile app and website for ordering, payment, and delivery. To improve the performance, resilience, flexibility, and scalability of its systems, the retailer […]