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Category: HAQM EventBridge

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Getting visibility into storage usage in multi-tenant HAQM S3 buckets

SaaS providers with multi-tenant environments use cloud solutions to dynamically scale their workloads as customer demand increases. As their cloud footprint grows, having visibility into each end-customer’s storage consumption becomes important to distribute resources accordingly. An organization can use storage usage data per customer (tenant) to adjust its pricing model or better plan its budget. […]

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Detect malware threats using AWS Transfer Family

Securely sharing files over SFTP, FTP, and FTPS is a staple within many business-to-business (B2B) workflows. Across industries, companies use file transfer to transmit inventory, invoice, and compliance information. It is critical for companies to make sure that shared files do not have any malicious content that could compromise their systems. Guaranteeing the shared files […]

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Retrieving previous versions of S3 bucket policies

When dealing with applications or storage, it is often helpful to log previous policy configurations and have the ability to retrieve them. This can help you managed and troubleshoot configuration changes and comply with security regulations. HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) bucket policies are resource-based policies that you can use to grant access permissions […]

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How to restore archived HAQM EC2 backup recovery points from the HAQM S3 Glacier storage classes

This is the second post in a two-part series. In part one, we described a process to automatically archive HAQM EC2 backup recovery points from AWS Backup to an HAQM S3 bucket in one of the HAQM S3 Glacier storage classes. In this post, we describe the process to restore an archived EC2 backup recovery point from […]

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How to archive HAQM EC2 backup recovery points to HAQM S3 Glacier storage classes

Centralizing and automating data protection helps you support your business continuity and regulatory compliance goals. Centralized data protection and enhanced visibility across backup operations can reduce the risks of disasters, improve business continuity, and simplify the auditing process. Many organizations have requirements to retain backups of their compute instances for a certain time based on […]

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Modern data protection architecture on HAQM S3: Part 2

Update (12/11/2023): As of November 20, 2023, HAQM S3 supports enabling S3 Object Lock on existing buckets. Keeping data secure and usable in unforeseen circumstances like accidental breaches, human error, and hacking is critical to business continuity and success. To effectively mitigate the impact of these events on business-critical assets, one of the recommended strategies […]

S3 Security

Modern data protection architecture on HAQM S3: Part 1

Update (12/11/2023): As of November 20, 2023, HAQM S3 supports enabling S3 Object Lock on existing buckets. Keeping data secure and usable in unforeseen circumstances like accidental breaches, human error, and hacking is critical to business continuity and success. To effectively mitigate the impact of these events on business-critical assets, one of the recommended strategies […]

Monitoring HAQM EBS volume disruptions using HAQM EventBridge

A top priority for customers is to make sure that their applications are highly resilient and durable to meet their business goals. To make sure that applications are working and performing as expected, you can use monitoring tools such as HAQM CloudWatch metrics and events to track the health of your applications. Monitoring and alarming […]

Simplify archiving HAQM EBS Snapshots and monitor progress using a live HAQM CloudWatch dashboard

Data protection is top of mind for our customers, and having a data backup strategy is critical to ensure compliance, disaster recovery readiness, and business continuity. As customers experience exponential business growth, their data storage needs grow as well, and data retention can become very costly. In order to meet compliance requirements for data retention […]

Monitoring the health of HAQM FSx file systems using HAQM EventBridge and AWS Lambda

Storage administrators who are using managed services need a way to monitor the health of their resources, in order to detect any changes in resource health or accessibility that might require their attention or intervention. For administrators managing large fleets of resources, this monitoring needs to be efficient and scalable so that any alerts are […]