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Amazon S3 Glacier Storage Classes

Reduce recovery time and optimize storage costs with faster restores from Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes and Commvault

Data is the lifeblood of any modern business. Organizations are storing more copies of their application data than ever before to recover from data loss, repair data corruption or ransomware damage, respond to compliance requests, and become more data driven. Storing more data at reduced cost enables businesses to extract more value and insights to […]

Authorize NFS clients outside of AWS with AWS IAM Roles Anywhere

Securely storing and authorizing access to data in the cloud is a top priority. One challenge faced by organizations is developing a consistent authorization experience to grant access to data for hybrid architectures. Workloads running on AWS can access data stored on services like Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) using AWS Identity and Access […]

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Detect malware threats using AWS Transfer Family

Securely sharing files over SFTP, FTP, and FTPS is a staple within many business-to-business (B2B) workflows. Across industries, companies use file transfer to transmit inventory, invoice, and compliance information. It is critical for companies to make sure that shared files do not have any malicious content that could compromise their systems. Guaranteeing the shared files […]

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

Configuring the auto-expansion of Amazon FSx for OpenZFS with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda

Today’s demanding workloads such as database, rendering farm, analytics and ML workloads, have increasingly demanding IO requirements. These workloads need a reliable storage infrastructure that provides sufficient storage capacity, IOPS, and throughput. As customers move more workloads to the cloud, they want to benefit from the agility and performance capabilities of the cloud as their […]

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Extending SAP workloads with AWS Transfer Family

Transfer protocols, such as Secure Shell (SSH) File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol Secure (FTPS), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) are essential for corporations to migrate file transfer workflows by integrating with existing authentication systems. These protocols are deeply embedded in business processes across many industries like financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, and retail. Companies […]

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Migrate on-premises data to AWS for insightful visualizations

When migrating data from on premises, customers seek a data store that is scalable, durable, and cost effective. Equally as important, BI must support modern, interactive, and fast dashboards that can scale to tens of thousands of users seamlessly while providing the ability to create meaningful data visualizations for analysis. Visualization of on-premises business analytics […]

Getting started with Amazon S3 compatible storage on AWS Snowball Edge devices

Customers across numerous industries need to extend their applications from the cloud to rugged, mobile edge, and disconnected environments to capture and process data closer to where it is created. Today, many of these customers use third-party storage solutions at the edge. This approach requires significant effort to rearchitect applications for both cloud and edge […]

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How to accelerate your data transfers with AWS DataSync scale out architectures

Do you ever wonder how you can keep up with incoming requests for increased storage capacity without having to expand data center footprint, increase utility spend, and continually handle hardware refresh cycles? Customers are looking to free up space from on-premises storage systems or other clouds, whether it is for existing archival datasets, transitioning their […]

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Deploying AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery at scale with AWS Systems Manager

In the digital era, ensuring business continuity through effective disaster recovery measures is crucial for organizations of all sizes. Setting up disaster recovery solutions manually, such as installing recovery agents on multiple servers, can be a significant and time-consuming task. Therefore, many customers are increasingly seeking automation not only to streamline common administrative tasks but […]

Conducting chaos engineering experiments on Amazon EBS using AWS Fault Injection Simulator

As distributed systems get more complex, anticipating disruptions becomes even more challenging. Conventional techniques of verifying known situations through unit or integration testing leave gaps that don’t cover component failures, which can result in expensive outages. Chaos engineering is a disciplined approach to unhide failures before they become outages. By proactively identifying how a system […]