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Data loss events from malware attacks can compromise your backups, putting your recovery strategy at risk. Organizations rely on backups as a critical defense against data loss, but these same backups can inadvertently preserve malware that has infiltrated production systems without being detected and removed. When malicious events occur, customers face a significant challenge: determining […]

Businesses replicate data from on-premises file shares to the cloud to power analytics processes, enable migrations, or free up archival storage. When authenticating to Windows Server Message Block (SMB) file shares, the NTLM protocol has been ubiquitous for decades. However, Microsoft announced its deprecation in 2024. Whether your business operates in a highly regulated industry […]

Enterprises today face significant challenges securing backup data during incidents. When backup systems share authentication with production environments, compromised credentials can block access to both environments, leaving enterprises vulnerable during recovery. Enterprises with interconnected environments face heightened risk, where single-approval frameworks provide inadequate protection. The integration of the Multi-party approval capability with AWS Backup provides […]

As businesses evolve, critical applications must remain highly available whether running on traditional virtualized infrastructure or more modern cloud- based environments. These workloads need to be resilient against ransomware attacks, data corruption, infrastructure failures, and regional impairments. Organizations must focus on defining the appropriate recovery objectives, while also minimizing costs. However, implementing disaster recovery can […]

As data grows exponentially, organizations running Oracle databases prioritize minimizing backup time and quicker recovery times in the event of disasters. Oracle databases on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) often configure an Oracle Fast Recovery Area (FRA) to fulfil data protection, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements. The FRA is a centralized, Oracle-managed storage location that streamlines […]

Managing large-scale data analytics across diverse data sources has long been a challenge for enterprises. Data teams often struggle with complex data lake configurations, performance bottlenecks, and the need to maintain consistent data governance while enabling broad access to analytics capabilities. Today, Starburst announces a powerful solution to these challenges by extending their Apache Iceberg […]

UPDATE (1/27/2025): Amazon S3 Metadata is generally available. UPDATE (7/15/2025): Amazon S3 Metadata releases live inventory tables. This blog post has been edited to reflect the current process. Object storage provides virtually unlimited scalability, but managing billions, or even trillions, of objects can pose significant challenges. How do you know what data you have? How can […]

Organizations today often depend on mission-critical database workloads. When these databases become unavailable, it can significantly impact revenue and erode user trust. To mitigate this risk, these critical environments need the fastest possible recovery capabilities if there is a failure. This means having the lowest recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). Achieving […]

UPDATE: This post was updated on 8/4/2021 to include an AWS CloudFormation template for automation and also to modify relevant sections to reflect support for Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive and S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Access and Deep Archive Access tiers. AWS Customers who have on-premises file-based applications love having the ability to deploy an AWS Storage […]

UPDATE: The AWS re:Invent links in this post are outdated. Please visit the AWS Events channel on YouTube for a complete on-demand playlist of AWS Storage sessions at AWS re:Invent 2019. In one of our recent blog posts, we shared an all-in storage guide for re:Invent so you can maximize your time at the conference. […]