Tag: AWS Cloud Storage

Motability Operations runs the UK’s Motability Scheme and provides vehicle leasing services to approximately 900,000 disabled customers. The organization leases cars, Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs, delivering an all-inclusive package with insurance, maintenance, and breakdown coverage that supports independence and mobility for customers across the country. Motability Operations manages diverse AWS workloads across […]

Organizations generate massive volumes of structured data from customer transactions, operational metrics, product catalogs, and compliance records. This data contains insights that can help businesses make better and timely decisions. Financial advisors need to review client transaction histories, retail analysts track inventory trends, and healthcare administrators monitor patient outcomes. Yet accessing these insights creates a […]

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 […]

Since its launch in 2006, Amazon S3 has used a global namespace where bucket names must be unique across all AWS accounts and AWS Regions. This design has served customers well at scale, but organizations managing multiple accounts and environments often encounter naming collisions. When a bucket is deleted, its name returns to the global […]

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 […]

Organizations processing large-scale data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and business intelligence face a persistent challenge: how to access and read massive datasets quickly and cost-effectively. As data volumes grow exponentially, the performance of data access patterns becomes more critical. Inefficient read operations can lead to longer processing times, higher compute costs, and delayed insights, […]

Every day, organizations expand into new markets, migrate critical workloads across geographies, and build systems that need to operate reliably in multiple locations. At the root of these efforts is a simple question: “What can I deploy, and where?” The answer shapes important architecture decisions, from which AWS Regions to expand into, to how you […]

When customers choose to run self-managed Oracle databases in the cloud, one of the fundamental decisions they make is where to store their data. Although many deployments use locally attached block storage, there’s a compelling alternative: running Oracle on a network file system such as Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. Shifting database storage from local disks […]

Learn how to use ONTAP security descriptors and policies to apply consistent NTFS permissions across millions of files on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP reducing remediation time from hours to minutes.

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 […]