Tag: HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS)

UPDATE (2/3/2022): Source code extended to support AWS Backup for HAQM S3. UPDATE (6/24/2022): Source code updated to read tags from recovery points inline with changes to AWS Backup boto3 APIs. Update (2/23/2023): Fixed bug in source code related to support for HAQM S3 backup restores. AWS customers use tags to track ownership of resources, […]

If you’ve tried to optimize HAQM EBS performance for your SQL Server workload before, you may have come across this blog post from late 2019. Until December 2020, with SQL Server workloads that required more than 80,000 IOPS or 2,375 MB/s of throughput, your only high-performance option was an NVMe-powered HAQM EC2 instance store. These […]

VMware Carbon Black is a leader in global cybersecurity specializing in endpoint detection, application control, and next-generation antivirus. They currently support over 8,000 customers using HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) to orchestrate containers in their microservice architecture and HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS) for their HAQM EKS data volumes. Using HAQM EBS gp2 volumes, […]

Shaadi.com was founded in 1996 with one simple objective – to provide a superior matchmaking experience to Indian people around the world. Shaadi.com has over 3 million active profiles globally. As of today, Shaadi has helped 3.5 crore (35 million) people find their matches. Shaadi.com uses AWS to deploy its key products, including the matrimonial […]

Providing predictable storage performance for mission critical applications can be challenging. Doing so involves dealing with complex configurations in your storage systems to get the performance you need, such as by striping multiple disks or volumes together, or by investing in expensive storage hardware. None of these configurations are flexible, and it is hard to […]

Many AWS customers frequently look for ways to lower operational costs and complexity of managing their backup operations. With HAQM EBS, you can create EBS snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs that are a convenient way to back up your block level data, regardless of where it resides. EBS snapshots are a block-level, point-in-time, incremental copies of […]

Backing up your valuable data is an inseparable part of running Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) Server workloads, due to the importance and value of data in today’s enterprises. SQL Server backup and restore operations can complexify as your number of databases grows and your recovery time and recovery point objectives approach zero. These factors make it […]

As a critical part of data protection and disaster recovery (DR) readiness, backing up data is an integral part of data storage in the cloud or otherwise. AWS customers use HAQM EBS snapshots, which are point-in-time backups of EBS volumes, as part of their data protection strategy in the cloud, often as part of their […]

Enterprises and organizations in more security-conscious industries often protect their data through encryption, restricting data access to those with the necessary permissions and improving their security posture. Creating backups of data resources is often another critical component of a secure and resilient architecture. Additionally, backing up encrypted data is also important, even across geographical regions […]

Update (4/27/2022): Download the EBS gp2 to gp3 migration cost savings calculator to find out how much you can save by migrating your EBS gp2 volumes to gp3. General Purpose SSD (gp2) HAQM EBS volumes have provided a cost effective way for AWS customers to achieve SSD performance for variety of applications, such as virtual […]