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Manage backup and restore of HAQM DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) with AWS Backup

On November 8, 2021, AWS Backup announced support for HAQM DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) clusters, adding to the supported AWS services across compute, storage, and database. Many customers, especially in regulated industries, require centralized management of their data protection and compliance across different AWS services. With this launch, you can centrally manage and govern the […]

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Simplify auditing your data protection policies with AWS Backup Audit Manager

Have you had to prove to an auditor that you are protecting and retaining data adequately to meet regulatory or organizational requirements?  The audit process can be resource intense. To meet an auditor’s criteria, the burden of proof is on you to show that you had proper controls in place to protect and retain your […]

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Centralizing data protection and compliance for HAQM Neptune with AWS Backup

HAQM Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. HAQM Neptune has native support for backing up and restoring Neptune DB clusters and customers currently using those methods can continue to do so. However, many customers, especially those […]

Johnson & Johnson reduces analysis time by 35% with their data science platform using HAQM EFS

Johnson & Johnson data science and business experts collaborate to incorporate science into healthcare solutions, including medical device and diagnostic technologies, consumer healthcare products, and pharmaceuticals. Johnson & Johnson needed storage to share and perform analytics on their data science workbench for genomics neuroscience, R&D, and drug discovery. A massively scalable solution was required to […]

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Enhance the security posture of your backups with AWS Backup Vault Lock

When dealing with backups, data managers frequently ask, “how do I prevent my backups from being accidentally or maliciously deleted?” or “what can I do to enhance protection against ransomware?” In highly regulated industries, WORM* (write-once-read-many) compliance is required for backups and archives. WORM compliance means immutability and an immutable backup helps in the recovery […]

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How Capital One uses HAQM S3 Glacier to optimize data storage costs and maximize resources

At Capital One, our goal is to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. Our founders believed that banking would be revolutionized by technology. Based on that vision, our technology leaders made an aggressive effort in building a talented in-house software engineering practice. This foresight helped us become a leader […]

Planning to replace a data center NAS with HAQM FSx File Gateway

In April, AWS released a new type of AWS Storage Gateway called the HAQM FSx File Gateway. Similar to the AWS Storage Gateway products that provide a convenient on-premises front-end for HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) storage, the FSx File Gateway provides a local front-end for an HAQM FSx for Windows File Server file […]

Achieve higher database performance using HAQM EBS io2 Block Express volumes

I think it’s safe to say that every organization that runs its own IT environment has applications running on a database. Managing database servers is a critical job, as any performance hiccups on the database could affect many users and the workloads that they execute. Many enterprises see negative impact on the performance of their […]

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Using AWS Snowball to migrate data to HAQM S3 Glacier for long-term storage

Customers often choose to move large amounts of on-premises data to HAQM S3 Glacier. These customers choose to use S3 Glacier for its ability to reliably and securely store any amount of data at a cost-effective price, while being designed for 11 9’s of data durability. This makes S3 Glacier a popular choice for long-term […]

New longer resource IDs for HAQM Elastic File System

To accommodate anticipated service growth in the future, HAQM Elastic File System (HAQM EFS) is migrating to longer format, 17-character resource IDs for its file systems and mount targets. You can opt into this change today, by using the HAQM EFS console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or HAQM EFS API. The switch-over to long […]