Tag: AWS Regions

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 […]

AWS customers with data located in multiple AWS Regions often ask about moving files from AWS Regions outside of China to the AWS China (Beijing) Region and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region to localize data within China for compliance, data center operations, and data storage requirements. To best serve customers in China and comply with […]

Customers who have special compliance or disaster recovery requirements have asked for the ability to replicate data in Amazon FSx for Windows File Server (Amazon FSx) to another AWS Region. Although AWS Regions and Amazon FSx have multiple tiers of resiliency built-in, replication can protect customer data in the unlikely scenario of a catastrophic loss of […]