AWS Storage Blog

Don’t miss our AWS Online Storage Tech Talk on March 24, where we cover migrating to managed Windows file storage. This Tech Talk is at 11:00 AM – 12:00 AM PT (2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET). Companies running legacy workloads on Network Attached Storage (NAS) hardware are often burdened with complex management, difficulty in scaling, […]

Since 2015, customers have used the AWS Snowball service to migrate large quantities of data to the AWS Cloud. Over time, the service has evolved and introduced new capabilities, including AWS Snowball Edge devices that feature on-board computing and increased storage capacity. The AWS Snow family continues to innovate to meet our customer’s needs. This includes […]

Customers have been running their Windows workloads on AWS for over a decade. Running business-critical applications often requires Microsoft SQL Server databases to be highly available. The high availability requirement demands that there are no single points of failure in the SQL Server deployment architecture. With a high availability setup, you have a cluster of […]

Customers looking to transfer data have traditionally developed their own in-house solutions or used open-source tools. In addition to that, they have also had to account for the security and integrity of their data transfer jobs. AWS DataSync addresses overhead costs and pain-points by providing a complete suite of data transfer solutions out of the […]

An increasing number of customers are looking to move their on-premises Network Attached Storage (NAS) to the cloud in order to benefit from cloud-based storage. Many of the same customers have mixed environments and use workstations with a combination of Windows and Linux operating systems. A common approach for employees using the Windows operating system […]

Notice: AWS DMS has evolved significantly since 2020, with new features like DMS Fleet Advisor and DMS Schema Conversion mentioned in the current documentation. Consult the latest AWS DMS and Snowball Edge documentation for more information. At some point in any database migration, the bandwidth of your network becomes a limiting factor. Without available high-speed internet links, it can take months to transfer large […]

UPDATE (7/25/2024): Use Amazon Athena, S3 Object Lambda, or client-side filtering to query your data in Amazon S3. Learn more » In our time as Solutions Architects at AWS, we have supported all types of customers and use cases. We regularly hear the same feedback: instead of deploying and managing systems and infrastructure, customers want […]

Bristol Myers Squibb develops and discovers innovative medicines to help treat, manage, and cure serious diseases. We use many AWS services to help us manage our scientific data, lab workflows, and large computations for analyzing molecular, cellular, and clinical datasets. Genomics and clinical data, generated in Bristol Myers Squibb labs, is growing at an exponential […]

Managing file servers and Network Attached Storage (NAS) file systems, serving file shares and home directories, can result in significant administrative overhead and complexity. The file systems require patching and maintenance on a scheduled basis. When file systems are hosted on physical infrastructure, it can become even more time consuming and costly when scaling out […]

Don’t miss our AWS Online Storage Tech Talk on February 26, where we cover accelerating data analytics with AWS file storage. This Tech Talk is at 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT (2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET). Many customers use shared file storage to accelerate business-critical data science workflows. They may use popular tools like Python, MXNet, […]