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Tag: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

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Using Okta with multi-factor authentication for AWS Transfer for SFTP

Enterprises often use SFTP to provide third parties like vendors, partners, or offsite laboratories access to their data lakes for things like uploads, downloads, or distributing data exports to clients. AWS Transfer Family provides a fully managed SFTP (now expanded to offer FTPS and FTP) service for Amazon S3. The service frees you from managing […]

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One way to migrate data from Azure Blob Storage to Amazon S3

Many businesses face situations where they must migrate their digital content, like images, text files, or data (from a database), from one place to another. More specifically, they may face mandates requiring a hybrid architecture or mixed-cloud solution. Certain cloud customers have faced the problem of not knowing how to move data from Azure Blob […]

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Automating cache refresh process for File Gateway on AWS Storage Gateway

For AWS Storage Gateway customers, keeping file shares up to date with changes in Amazon S3 buckets is important to ensure that users are not accessing stale data on their file shares. Previously, customers would either initiate a cache refresh for their file shares manually using an API or by managing a process that does […]

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AWS Storage Gateway provides simplified monitoring for File Gateway

Proactively monitoring your AWS Storage Gateway can keep you notified about performance issues and resource constraints if your workloads change over time. Monitoring can be used to indicate if you have network constraints, if the allocated cache storage is not sufficient, or if your root disk is not optimally handling increased workloads. In this post, […]

Preserving and archiving television history with an eye toward the future

How Team Coco used AWS and Iron Mountain to durably store, transcode, view, clip, and publish highlights from Late Night with Conan O’Brien’s 2725-episode library to millions of Conan’s fans. There’s an old English poem that says you capture some good luck as you embark on a profound new endeavor as long as you bring: […]

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Easily store your SQL Server backups in Amazon S3 using File Gateway

Last year, we published a blog showing you how to set up AWS Storage Gateway to store SQL Server backups in Amazon S3, using cloud-backed Server Message Block (SMB) shares on File Gateway. Customers with growing on-premises backup costs and increasing operational overhead have used this solution to store their SQL Server backups durably and […]

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Centralize data access using AWS Transfer Family and AWS Storage Gateway

More stringent and ever-changing compliance regulations have challenged financial institutions in a variety of ways, and regulatory compliance is frequently translated into specific operational requirements. One such operational requirement is that financial institutions must provide information accurately and in a timely fashion to external organizations. Apart from reporting, financial institutions must adhere to data retention […]

Deluxe enables same day global theatrical delivery using AWS Snowcone

Deluxe Entertainment Services Inc. (Deluxe) is a world-leading video creation and distribution company offering global, end-to-end services and technology for the media and entertainment market. The largest content creators, broadcasters, OTTs, and distributors around the globe rely on Deluxe’s scale, technology, and capabilities to enable the worldwide market for premium content. Deluxe’s latest innovation for […]

Online Tech Talk June 24: Cost optimization guidelines for Amazon S3

Don’t miss our AWS Online Storage Tech Talk on June 24, where an AWS expert covers cost optimization guidelines for Amazon S3. This Tech Talk is at 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT (2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET). Effective cost optimization across Amazon S3 storage classes can require different approaches depending on application latency […]

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Back up your on-premises applications to the cloud using AWS Storage Gateway

Data continues to grow exponentially worldwide, and protecting and preserving data is critical for all organizations. Some of our customers are engaged in multi-year journeys to the cloud, and they continue to manage and maintain on-premises storage infrastructure in a hybrid cloud model. For data protection and to meet long-term retention requirements, many organizations spend […]