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Online Tech Talk October 23rd: Reduce File Storage TCO with HAQM EFS and HAQM FSx for Windows File Server
Don’t miss our AWS online Storage Tech Talk on October 23rd where we cover: ‘Reduce File Storage TCO with HAQM EFS and HAQM FSx for Windows File Server‘ Managing legacy NAS storage arrays on-premises brings complexity and high CapEx. HAQM EFS is a cloud-native, scalable, elastic NFS file system for Linux workloads for use with […]
Automate mounting HAQM EFS File Systems from the EC2 Launch Instance Wizard
Customers have provided us with great feedback on previous posts covering best practices and integrations for using HAQM Elastic File System (EFS) with other AWS services, and they have been asking for more. Today, I’ll show you how you can simplify and automate the mounting of HAQM EFS file systems to EC2 instances directly from […]
Store Mission-critical Files in AWS GovCloud (US) with HAQM EFS – Now FedRAMP Certified
I’m super excited to share that HAQM Elastic File System (HAQM EFS) has achieved FedRAMP High provisional authorization in AWS GovCloud (US). With this achievement, U.S. government agencies can now easily and cost-effectively store sensitive files including Personally Identifiable Information (PII), sensitive patient records, financial data, law enforcement data, and other Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) […]
Data Protection for Your Cloud Journey with NetBackup 8.2 and AWS
This blog is co-authored by Ralph Wynn, Global Technical Account Manager at Veritas, and Henry Axelrod, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS. In this post we are going to explore some of the benefits you can get for your data protection needs with NetBackup 8.2 and AWS. As more and more organizations face market pressures to […]
How to easily replace physical tape-based backups with Tape Gateway
AWS has millions of active customers every month[1] and provides a wide array of cloud computing services to meet customers’ needs no matter where they are in their cloud adoption journey. As a member of the AWS Storage Gateway service team that builds hybrid cloud storage solutions for customers, I get to speak with many […]
Best practices for using HAQM EFS for container storage
Tens of thousands of companies are storing petabytes of data on HAQM Elastic File System (HAQM EFS), many of them using EFS to store data for containerized applications. HAQM EFS file systems can be attached to containers launched by both HAQM Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). HAQM EFS is a natural […]
HAQM CloudWatch Percentiles on HAQM S3 brings more precision to tracking application response time metrics
If you care about application response time, you’ll be interested in hearing about new HAQM CloudWatch support for percentiles on HAQM S3. Those responsible for the development and operation of applications understand there is a correlation between data response time and your customers’ experience with application responsiveness. For this reason, many organizations have established response […]
Storing data with partner backup solutions and HAQM S3 Glacier Deep Archive
AWS recently launched HAQM S3 Glacier Deep Archive, a new storage class that provides the most economical storage currently available in the cloud. This storage class offers you another option at a price point even lower than storing data on tapes in an offsite facility. This post describes the benefits of using S3 Glacier Deep […]
Scalable, cloud-native file storage at pennies per GB-month with HAQM EFS
Tens of thousands of customers including T-Mobile, MicroStrategy, HERE, and LoanLogics are storing up to petabytes of data in HAQM Elastic File System (HAQM EFS), to power use cases such as lift-and-shift of enterprise applications, large scale analytics, and persistent file storage for containers, at a blended price point of just $0.096/GB-month. In doing so, […]
Protecting your data with AWS Backup
In January 2019, AWS launched AWS Backup, a fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the backup of data across AWS services. As of July 2019, AWS Backup integrates with: HAQM EBS HAQM EFS HAQM RDS (all engines except HAQM Aurora) HAQM DynamoDB AWS Storage Gateway (Volume Gateway) Overview Before […]