AWS Storage Blog

Data security is a top priority for customers using AWS cloud services. Based on customer input, AWS has “designed-in” methods enabling customers to automate common security workflows such as password rotation. The principals of this automation follows the AWS Well-Architected Framework which helps cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for a variety […]

Supporting file-based workloads with growing performance demands over time is a continuous challenge for organizations. As datasets expand, static infrastructure struggles to keep pace, resulting in disruptive migrations to new infrastructure. Organizations need highly scalable file storage that delivers speed at-scale today, while adapting seamlessly to future requirements. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides fully […]

Users of productivity software and collaboration services such as Microsoft 365 want to protect their data and often tell us that data durability is one of their highest priorities. With the recent increases in reported cyber incidents, increasing data resilience against threats such as ransomware and other events that may compromise data durability is key. […]

Customers in Manufacturing, Real Estate, Engineering and Construction, Healthcare and other related industries often have remote facilities with limited network bandwidth where large amounts of data generated at the edge needs to be stored, processed and analyzed for making decisions in real time. For example, applications running in manufacturing plants need low latency access to […]

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has 30 PB of Tick History-PCAP data, which is ultra-high-quality global market data that is based on raw exchange data, timestamped to the nanosecond. An additional 60 TB is generated every day. LSEG sought to migrate their data from Wasabi cloud storage, LSEG was looking for a new solution to […]

Fetch provides a convenient and rewarding platform for consumers to earn points and redeem them for various goods and services, making it an attractive option for those looking to maximize the value of their everyday purchases. Fetch’s users use a simple interface to upload their receipts for scanning and earn points for every receipt they […]

Certain organizations may experience unexpected or outlier cross-region data transfer charges and require time to identify which of their systems or workloads are initiating them. In such cases, it may be useful to temporarily block data transfers to within a particular region. This temporary restriction can prevent further unwanted charges and allows time for audit […]

When managing a hybrid-cloud infrastructure, monitoring system health is essential for maintaining business continuity. Setting up comprehensive monitoring provides visibility into performance and availability of infrastructure components. By establishing alert thresholds and promptly responding to alarms, administrators can identify degraded performance or outages early. Quickly diagnosing and fixing the issues maximizes uptime. AWS Storage Gateway, […]

Organizations meet business and regulatory requirements by having visibility and control over backup environments. You want a streamlined solution to continuously monitor, detect, and track policy drifts across your backup deployments at scale. This need is driven by the growing complexity of AWS environments, the proliferation of data across diverse AWS services and regions, and […]

WarpStream, an AWS Partner, is a drop-in replacement for Apache Kafka. WarpStream’s cloud-native architecture makes it as easy to deploy and manage as a stateless web server like NGINX. WarpStream clusters can scale up to handle multiple GiB-per-second workloads as quickly as compute resources are assigned and then scale back down to zero after the […]