AWS Storage Blog
Category: Storage
Lift and Shift migration of SFTP servers to AWS
Organizations across a variety of industries and geographical locations exchange data as part of their critical business workflows. Quite often, the operational burden of managing file transfer infrastructure and high capital expenses drains IT budgets. More importantly, it keeps those budgets from resourcing value added projects to differentiate businesses. To address these challenges, and unlock the […]
Online Tech Talk February 18: Create an enterprise backup and restore plan with AWS
Don’t miss our AWS online Storage Tech Talk on February 18, where we cover creating an enterprise backup and restore plan with AWS. This tech talk is at 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT (2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET). The exponential growth of data worldwide has made managing backups more difficult than ever before. […]
Increasing application resilience with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
UPDATE: For a more in-depth look at this topic, please visit the blog post “Configuring Cross-Region DR of your Amazon EC2 workloads with CloudEndure.” If there is an IT disaster, you must get your workloads back up and running quickly to ensure business continuity. For business-critical applications, the priority is keeping your recovery time and […]
Deploying AWS Storage Gateway on Linux KVM hypervisor
AWS customers support a variety of on-premises environments and have different deployment needs. Until now, customers using Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor have not had a convenient way to implement a hybrid cloud storage solution using AWS Storage Gateway. AWS Storage Gateway provides on-premises applications access to virtually unlimited cloud storage using NFS, SMB, […]
Creating and activating File Gateway on VMware
Wouldn’t it be great if your on-premises applications could use AWS Cloud Storage, without the need for any modifications? Do you want to use standard file storage protocols, such as SMB or NFS? If so, you can use File Gateway, which is part of AWS Storage Gateway. File Gateway presents SMB or NFS file shares for […]
Using Amazon FSx for Lustre for Genomics Workflows on AWS
Genomics datasets are getting larger year-over-year. Combining data from research initiatives across the globe, and having the ability to process it quickly, has been identified by large bioinformatics and genomics communities as an enabling mechanism for making significant scientific discoveries. Collaborating on a global scale requires data storage solutions that are globally accessible, highly available, […]
Aggregating logs with S3 Same-Region Replication
Introduction Aggregating logs to a secure dedicated location streamlines critical operations like Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). As more customers adopt a multi-account strategy, central logging becomes a key component of driving operational excellence. Considering the benefits, enterprise customers often use complex third-party tools to build their centralized log aggregation solution. With the announcement […]
Query Amazon S3 Analytics data with Amazon Athena
I recently had a customer explain that they were aware of the benefits of various Amazon S3 storage classes, like S3 Standard, S3 Infrequent-Access, and S3 One-Zone Infrequent-Access, but they were not sure which tiers and lifecycle rules to apply to optimize their storage. This customer, and others like them, have multiple buckets and various […]
Make a New Year’s resolution: Learn about AWS Storage on the AWS Storage Blog
With the New Year upon us, we on the AWS Storage team wanted to share some of the AWS Storage Blog’s most popular posts of 2019. Since our first post welcomed you to the blog on March 25, 2019, we have made every effort to educate the AWS community, and the cloud community at large, […]
New enhancements for moving data between Amazon FSx for Lustre and Amazon S3
Introduction to Amazon FSx for Lustre Amazon FSx for Lustre is a high performance file system optimized for workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing, video processing, financial modeling, electronic design automation, and analytics. Amazon FSx works natively with Amazon S3, making it easy for you to process cloud data sets with high performance […]