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Optimizing electronic health care records at scale with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) applications are approaching a 40 billion dollar market size with a high compound annual growth rate. While continuing to focus on enabling innovative healthcare, EHR consumers can benefit from adopting cloud-based approaches that reduce operational burden, management overhead, reduce capital outlay, and total cost of ownership. EHR deployments are complex in […]

How to monitor Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) storage costs

Every organization should be seeking to optimize resource utilization, aiming for the highest efficacy at the lowest possible cost. To make effective data-driven cost optimization decisions, it’s essential to have relevant data, tools for generating reports, and clear documentation on how to do so. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) offers serverless, scalable, and fully […]

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Transferring data from Google Cloud Filestore to Amazon EFS using AWS DataSync

Organizations may need to transfer large numbers of files from one cloud provider to another for a variety of reasons like workload migration, disaster recovery, or a requirement to process data in other clouds. Data transfers typically require end-to-end encryption, the ability to detect changes, object validation, network throttling, monitoring, and cost optimization. Building a […]

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Cross-region disaster recovery with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Data protection is a top priority for our customers. Your disaster recovery (DR) strategy might require you to continuously replicate your data across multiple geographic regions to mitigate against natural disasters such as earthquakes or technical disasters that may affect a particular geographic region. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, which provides fully managed shared storage […]

How Orca Security efficiently shares encrypted Amazon EBS Snapshots

Orca Security, an AWS Partner, is an independent cybersecurity software provider whose agent-less cloud security environment is trusted by hundreds of enterprises globally. Orca makes cloud security simple for enterprises moving to and scaling with AWS with its patented SideScanning™ technology and Unified Data Model. Orca’s customers use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes […]

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Migrating DigitalOcean Spaces to Amazon S3 using AWS DataSync

Organizations may at times have to transfer large amounts of object data from one cloud service provider to another. There can be several reasons for this, including data consolidation, moving workloads, disaster recovery planning, or cost optimization efforts. Completing a successful migration requires several key elements, including full encryption of the data being transferred, the […]

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Simplify multicloud data movement wherever data is stored with AWS DataSync

At AWS, we believe that customers get the best experience, performance, and cost when they choose to run their IT operations in the cloud. However, for a variety of reasons, some customers end up in a situation where they’re running their IT operations in a multicloud environment. For example, a customer might have acquired a […]

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Introducing AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault

Update: AWS Backup announced the general availability of logically air-gapped vault on August 7, 2024. Please read the associated how-to blog. Data loss events from ransomware or account compromise remain a top concern for customers. One customer need during a service restore is sharing recovery points stored in AWS Backup with other accounts, including cross […]

Amazon S3 Glacier Storage Classes

Reduce recovery time and optimize storage costs with faster restores from Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes and Commvault

Data is the lifeblood of any modern business. Organizations are storing more copies of their application data than ever before to recover from data loss, repair data corruption or ransomware damage, respond to compliance requests, and become more data driven. Storing more data at reduced cost enables businesses to extract more value and insights to […]

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­­Encrypt and decrypt files with PGP and AWS Transfer Family

1/11/2024: Updates made due to CloudShell migration to Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). Protecting sensitive data is not a novel idea. Customers in industries like financial services and healthcare regularly exchange files containing sensitive data, including Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and financial records with their users. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption of these files is often […]