AWS Storage Blog

Over on the AWS Partner Network Blog, a recent blog post caught my eye and I thought it was worth sharing with our growing storage audience. The post, Building a Data Lake Foundation for Salesforce in AWS, is written by Simon Ejsing, Director of Analytics at FinancialForce. Simon’s post outlines their approach to unlocking the potential of […]

From time to time the AWS Storage Blog will point you to storage related blog posts from other AWS blog channels that we think you will find interesting or helpful for your storage use cases. We wanted to share a post from the Open Source Blog that highlights a walk-through of using Amazon FSx for Lustre […]

We recently announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive, a new Amazon S3 storage class providing secure and durable object storage for long-term retention of data that is accessed rarely in a year. From just $0.00099 per GB-month (less than one-tenth of one cent, or about $1 per TB-month), S3 Glacier Deep […]

AWS launched AWS DataSync at re:Invent 2018 to simplify and accelerate moving data between on-premises and AWS over the network. Customers are using DataSync for a number of use cases, such as migration, recurring transfers for data processing in AWS, disaster recovery, and one-off transfers of large datasets. After the launch, I heard about how […]

Many customers are excited about Amazon EFS because it makes it easy to run a highly scalable, highly available, and highly durable shared file system in the cloud. Within seconds, you can create an NFSv4 compliant file system and mount it to multiple (up to thousands of) Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises servers. Amazon EFS […]

Authored by Michael Labib, Principal Architect, AWS Solutions Architecture with contribution from Sabrinath Rao, Amazon S3 product manager Amazon S3 is the persistent store for applications such as data lakes, media catalogs, and website-related content. These applications often have latency requirements of 10 ms or less, with frequent object requests on 1–10% of the total stored […]

Welcome to the AWS Storage Blog! This blog covers AWS storage and data transfer services and will help you learn how to optimize your use of AWS for cloud storage use cases and help you uncover new ones. We will cover topics that include deep dives on features and services, technical best practices, insights from […]