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Consider a platform team responsible for data protection across a large, regulated enterprise. Over years of growth, the organization now runs hundreds of Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts across many teams and AWS Regions, and each team has configured its own backup approach. The platform team now faces a familiar challenge: how to enforce consistent, […]

At Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, cost is an important factor in every infrastructure decision. With research scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers working across a wide gamut of projects, from large language models to computer vision to video generation, the AI/ML platform team faces a constant balancing act: deliver the high-performance storage that […]

When running large language model (LLM) inference at scale on AWS, the GPU might not be the only thing that limits you. The GPU generates tokens fast, but what then contributes to performance is everything around it: memory, storage, and the network path that connects them. That’s the difference between a demo and production. Training […]

AWS Backup for Amazon S3 now lets you access your backup data through Amazon S3 Access Points. You create an access point for a recovery point, and AWS Backup provisions an S3 endpoint with an alias that works anywhere you would use a bucket name. You can then read backup data using standard S3 APIs, […]

Enterprises increasingly need direct access to data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for analytics, reporting, collaboration, and decision-making. Enabling this access for non-technical users can be challenging: training staff on the AWS Management Console, building custom portals, or adopting third-party tools each carry trade-offs in cost, complexity, or security posture. And as […]

Enterprise storage administrators manage hundreds of terabytes, and sometimes petabytes, of file data spanning business units, applications, and users. As that storage grows, so does the challenge of understanding what is actually stored in it. Administrators are asked to make capacity decisions, identify archive candidates, track storage costs, and support compliance reviews — but with […]

Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) reaches end of standard support on June 30, 2026. All AL2-based AWS Storage Gateway appliances must be migrated to Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) before that date, after which they will no longer receive software updates, security patches, or bug fixes. Storage Gateway continues to expand its hybrid cloud storage capabilities, and […]

For nearly two decades, organizations across healthcare, drug discovery, and financial services have relied on SAS Grid to power their most critical analytics workloads. SAS Grid (formally known as SAS Grid Manager) is an enterprise software platform developed by SAS Institute that distributes and manages large-scale analytical workloads across a cluster of servers. It acts […]

In the past, data stored in a file system was inaccessible to analytical tools like Amazon Quick Suite and Amazon SageMaker. Now, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP supports Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Access Points, so you can access your file data stored on FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems as if it were in […]

Financial institutions need to share files securely with partner banks while maintaining their existing file-based workflows. Many run applications using standard file systems such as Windows SMB or Linux NFS, but when sharing these files with external partners through SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), they traditionally had to copy data between file systems and SFTP […]