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Automating application-consistent Amazon EBS Snapshots for InterSystems IRIS databases

InterSystems IRIS is a cloud-based data platform optimized for high-throughput applications that must simultaneously process transactions and a range of analytics, including analytic SQL, business rules, and machine learning. Users use the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform to rapidly develop and deploy critical applications. InterSystems recommends that users consider several backup methods, such as external backups, […]

Effectively track AWS data transfer costs for cross-region Amazon EBS Snapshot Copy

To safeguard data against natural disasters and ransomware attacks, many AWS users opt to protect their data by creating snapshots and replicating them to different AWS Regions. It is crucial for these users to monitor snapshots and associated data transfers for inter-regional costs, allowing them to provide accurate chargebacks to both internal and external stakeholders. […]

How BMW Group optimizes software builds using AWS VM Import/Export and Amazon EBS Snapshot Copy

The BMW Group (BMW) is a global manufacturer of premium automobiles and motorcycles, covering the brands BMW, BMW Motorrad, MINI, and Rolls-Royce. Since 2022, BMW has started using AWS to scale its capacity to handle vast increases in needed compute and storage capacity to build and test automated driving features, such as adaptive cruise control, […]

Automating application-consistent Amazon EBS Snapshots for SAP HANA databases

Customers host their SAP HANA environments on AWS to run their business-critical processes, such as financial planning, data analytics, and supply chain management. Reliably backing up data in SAP HANA is paramount for users to restore the database in the event of disruptions and urgent business needs. To reliably back up SAP HANA, SAP documentation […]

Simple and comprehensive data protection with Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager

Enterprises often use distinct accounts to group workloads and associated resources used across multiple teams and projects. This helps organizations align ownership, decision making, and costs so that they can be easily managed across internal teams. However, each team in an account may have different requirements and processes when it comes to backing up their […]

Automating application-consistent Amazon EBS Snapshots for MySQL and PostgreSQL

MySQL and PostgreSQL are popular relational database management systems that many organizations use to power web applications, dynamic websites, and embedded systems. For customers self-hosting MySQL and PostgreSQL with AWS, they can use their choice of tools to manage the operating system, database software, patches, data replication, backup, and restoration. As customers back up their […]

Automating application-consistent Amazon EBS Snapshots for Windows applications

Customers have been running Microsoft workloads on AWS for over 16 years. Through conversations with these customers, a common challenge we’ve found is that as they back up their Windows applications to fulfill data protection needs, they often spend significant time and manual effort managing the orchestration of backup workflows. The time- and labor-intensive process […]

Retaining Amazon EC2 AMI snapshots for compliance using Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive

Many organizations have the need to retain data for a number of years to comply with regulations or IT requirements. They move cold data to archive storage in the cloud to optimize storage costs while staying compliant. For example, Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a critical data resource that many customers want to retain long term to meet compliance. Until […]

Simplify archiving Amazon EBS Snapshots and monitor progress using a live Amazon CloudWatch dashboard

Data protection is top of mind for our customers, and having a data backup strategy is critical to ensure compliance, disaster recovery readiness, and business continuity. As customers experience exponential business growth, their data storage needs grow as well, and data retention can become very costly. In order to meet compliance requirements for data retention […]

Protect your resources from unintended deletions through Rule Lock for Recycle Bin

Security and data protection are top-of-mind for AWS customers, especially when dealing with business-critical cloud resources. Customers want to protect their production data from accidental data loss as well as from emerging threats like ransomware, malicious insiders or account takeover attacks. On November 23rd, 2022, we added stronger controls to Recycle Bin through the Rule […]