Category: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Maintaining resiliency and operational clarity while keeping costs low is one of the key things our customers have to balance for their high-performance applications. As customers experience natural growth in capacity and performance needs, at some point they may hit the limits of the existing solutions and have to rethink their architecture. They can do […]

Organizations running mission-critical applications and databases face challenges to ensure their systems can withstand unexpected storage performance degradation. Storage latency issues can emerge unpredictably in production environments and impact the business. Although unit, integration, and regression testing ensure that systems work under normal conditions, they don’t cover unexpected failures that result in expensive outages. This […]

Organizations frequently upload compressed TAR files to Amazon S3 for efficient data transfer, but downstream applications often need extracted files for processing. Although AWS Glue excels at processing splittable files across worker nodes, TAR files need single-node processing, traditionally forcing teams to manually provision servers, monitor extraction jobs, and manage resource cleanup. This post demonstrates […]

PingCAP is a global company focused on developing distributed, high-performance, and auto scaling relational databases. Its flagship product, TiDB, is a popular open source databases, and TiDB Cloud, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) based on TiDB, delivers horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability for high-performance applications. Many PingCAP customers run highly latency-sensitive workloads such […]

As businesses strive to build highly available applications, they must prevent disruptions that can lead to downtime and revenue loss. Robust monitoring systems help identify failures proactively, but chaos engineering has emerged as a systematic approach to building resilient systems by uncovering potential issues before they become outages. Chaos engineering is especially critical for storage […]

In the cloud-native landscape, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes serve as the backbone for persistent storage in containerized applications. As organizations scale their Kubernetes workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), they increasingly rely on EBS volumes to provide high-performance, durable storage for stateful applications such as databases, message queues, and data […]

The gaming industry is undergoing significant growth, with AI-driven interactive experiences setting new standards. Anuttacon, an independent research lab, is committed to developing humanistic general intelligence that enables seamless, real-time interactions across text, voice, visuals, and more. Their mission is to create multimodal AI capable of genuine emotional understanding and expressive communication—technology that both thinks […]

Traditionally, many enterprises and organizations with on-premises infrastructure have used boot-from-SAN (Storage Area Network) rather than using locally attached storage. Booting from SAN offers centralized management and backup of boot volumes, supports high availability through multipathing, and enables greater flexibility by allowing systems to boot from pre-configured OS images hosted on a shared storage array […]

Users often use backups to help recover data after a disaster or security incident. However, what is often overlooked is the need to restore data due to an operational incident such as a data corruption event or deleted file. The ability to identify files and directories within a backup and restore them is an important […]

Managing storage resources efficiently in cloud environments is a challenge for organizations of all sizes. As businesses scale their operations, they often accumulate unused storage volumes that continue to generate costs without providing value. This ‘orphaned’ storage problem is particularly acute in containerized environments, where the complexity of storage lifecycle management can lead to oversight […]