AWS Storage Blog
Category: HAQM EC2
Troubleshooting automated pre- and post-scripts for AWS Backup
Customers can use event-driven architectures with decoupled tasks to automate and orchestrate custom scripts for backup jobs. With event-driven architectures, troubleshooting is key to understanding failures at the component levels in order to resolve issues that arise and keep the entire automated workflow running smoothly. In the first post in this two-part blog series, we […]
Isima.io optimizes price performance for OLAP workloads using HAQM EBS
Isima.io, a unified analytics startup founded in 2016, aims to accelerate analytics outcomes for organizations. Isimia.io does this by combining multiple data management disciplines – including Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), Enterprise-Data-Warehouse (EDW), and Business Intelligence (BI) – into one hyper-converged system. IT teams can only win by building differentiated, agile data apps. The […]
Disaster recovery for VMware Cloud on AWS using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Disasters due to natural calamities, application failures, service failures, human errors, or ransomware cause downtime for business applications as well as data loss and revenue impact. To help prepare for potential outages, companies running VMware on-premises are increasingly incorporating VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) into their hybrid cloud strategy. Disaster recovery (DR) is also a vital […]
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 […]
Cost-optimizing HAQM EBS volumes using AWS Compute Optimizer
When I talk with customers about their block storage needs, I frequently get asked “How can I optimize my block storage costs?” The simple answer is through two ways. One is always using the latest storage technology available that provides the best price-performance ratio. Another is provisioning the correct storage configuration catered to your workloads. […]
Synchronize HAQM EC2 instance tags and instance type with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery source servers
When performing disaster recovery, you recover your original systems and IT infrastructure to their original state at an alternate, available site. When you recover your servers, the recovered servers should match the original compute infrastructure to reduce the risk of underprovisioning or overprovisioning your recovery environment. This improves the likelihood that your recovery servers have […]
Prevent IOPS over-provisioning by monitoring striped HAQM EBS volumes within EC2 instance limits
Enterprises are always looking for ways to optimize storage performance to support their performance-intensive applications and workloads. One technique is data striping, which involves segmenting data across multiple storage volumes to aggregate maximum logical capacity and increase performance. The technique is useful for workloads that require high levels of input/output operations per second (IOPS) and/or […]
How to perform non-disruptive tests with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
By performing frequent disaster recovery (DR) tests and drills, your organization can prepare for unexpected IT outages caused by ransomware, human error, and other disruptions. Some organizations avoid DR testing because their testing procedures are time-consuming or costly, or because they cannot test without disrupting business. This can mean that they are unprepared to implement […]
Private cross-Region disaster recovery with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Editor’s note: Before reading about cross-Region disaster recovery using private connectivity in this blog, learn how to install an AWS DRS agent in a secured network in this blog. Update 5/7/2024: Steps for creating a security group that allows port 443 from the source VPC added to section “2. Establish private connectivity” and steps for […]
HAQM EBS at re:Invent 2022: Protect data at rest, in transit, and in volume backups
Mission critical workloads need advanced data services for data protection. HAQM Elastic Block Store (EBS) not only provides high-performance block-level storage volumes for HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, but also offers comprehensive and consistent data protection capabilities designed to protect data on block storage. Customers have been using HAQM EBS for over a decade […]