Category: Storage

HAQM FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed file storage that is accessible over the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. It is built on Windows Server and offers a rich set of enterprise storage capabilities with the scalability, reliability, and low cost that you have come to expect from AWS. In addition to […]

As traditional workloads continue to migrate to the cloud, some customers have been unable to take advantage of cloud-native services to host data typically held on their on-premises file servers. For example, data commonly used for team and project file sharing, or with content management systems, has needed to reside on-premises due to issues of […]

March 15, 2023 – You can now use S3 Object Lambda with HAQM CloudFront to tailor content for end users. August 13, 2024 – Added a note clarifying that, when following the walkthrough, you should not mark the Specify Lambda function version option that was added after this post was published. When you store data in […]

The HAQM S3 Glacier storage class is ideal for data archiving and long-term backup of information that will be accessed at least once per quarter (HAQM S3 Glacier Deep Archive is a better fit for data that is seldom accessed). HAQM S3 Glacier stores your data across three Availability Zones (AZs), each physically separated from […]

I wrote the blog post that announced HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) fifteen years ago today. In that post, I made it clear that the service was accessed via APIs and that it was targeted at developers, outlined a few key features, and shared pricing information. Developers found that post, started to write code […]

HAQM Elastic File System (HAQM EFS) provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget elastic file system for shared data across HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances or with container and serverless services such as HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS), HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS), AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda. Until now, customers could choose […]

Today I am happy to announce that AWS Outposts customers can now make local snapshots of their HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS) volumes, making it easy to meet data residency and local backup requirements. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location […]

At AWS re:Invent, we pre-announced that AWS PrivateLink for HAQM S3 was coming soon, and soon has arrived — this new feature is now generally available. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) and on-premises resources using private IPs from your virtual network. Way back in 2015, HAQM S3 was […]