Category: Storage

You can now lock individual HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS) snapshots in order to enforce better compliance with your data retention policies. Locked snapshots cannot be deleted until the lock is expired or released, giving you the power to keep critical backups safe from accidental or malicious deletion, including ransomware attacks. The Need for […]

Update November, 16 2023 — I added a link to the documentation with the exact IAM permissions required to use this capability. — Today, we’re making available a new capability of AWS Glue Data Catalog to allow automatic compaction of transactional tables in the Apache Iceberg format. This allows you to keep your transactional data […]

This week, it was really difficult to choose what to recap here because, as we’re getting closer to AWS re:Invent, service teams are delivering new capabilities at an incredible pace. Last week’s launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention last week: HAQM Aurora – Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with HAQM Redshift […]

You now have the ability to disable public sharing of new, and optionally existing, HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS) snapshots on a per-region, per-account basis. This provides you with another level of protection against accidental or inadvertent data leakage. EBS Snapshot Review You have had the power to create EBS snapshots since the launch […]

HAQM Data Lifecycle Manager now supports the use of pre-snapshot and post-snapshot scripts embedded in AWS Systems Manager documents. You can use these scripts to ensure that HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS) snapshots created by Data Lifecycle Manager are application-consistent. Scripts can pause and resume I/O operations, flush buffered data to EBS volumes, and […]

I’m excited to announce today a new capability of HAQM Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (HAQM MSK) (HAQM MSK) that allows you to continuously load data from an Apache Kafka cluster to HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3). We use HAQM Kinesis Data Firehose—an extract, transform, and load (ETL) service—to read data from a Kafka […]

HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS) io2 and io2 Block Express volumes now support storage fencing using NVMe reservations. As I learned while writing this post, storage fencing is used to regulate access to storage for a compute or database cluster, ensuring that just one host in the cluster has permission to write to the […]

Last week, there was some great reading about HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) and HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS) written by AWS tech leaders. Dr. Werner Vogels wrote Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell, celebrating the 17 years of loyal duty of the original version that started what we now know as cloud computing. […]