AWS Storage Blog

  • Migrate from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to AWS using AWS Application Migration Service

    Migrate from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to AWS using AWS Application Migration Service

    Customers using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) might explore the option of spreading or transitioning their cloud usage away from GCP to alternative providers for various reasons, including cost...

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  • Cross-region disaster recovery with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

    Cross-region disaster recovery with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

    Data protection is a top priority for our customers. Your disaster recovery (DR) strategy might require you to continuously replicate your data across multiple geographic regions to mitigate...

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  • Identify cold objects for archiving to Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes

    Identify cold objects for archiving to Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes

    Many organizations move cold data to archive storage in the cloud to optimize storage costs for data they want to preserve over a number of years. Archiving data at a very low cost also gives...

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  • How Orca Security efficiently shares encrypted Amazon EBS Snapshots

    How Orca Security efficiently shares encrypted Amazon EBS Snapshots

    Orca Security, an AWS Partner, is an independent cybersecurity software provider whose agent-less cloud security environment is trusted by hundreds of enterprises globally. Orca makes cloud...

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  • Derive insights from AWS DataSync task reports using AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight

    Derive insights from AWS DataSync task reports using AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight

    Update (9/22/2023): Step 6b updated to automatically detect and update the Amazon Athena table schema when crawler detects large data transfer values reported in bytes that would consume the...

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  • How Continental uses Mountpoint for Amazon S3 in autonomous driving development – accelerating simulation performance by 20%

    How Continental uses Mountpoint for Amazon S3 in autonomous driving development – accelerating simulation performance by 20%

    Continental and AWS have been collaborating to create the Continental Automotive Edge (CAEdge) framework – a modular hardware and software environment that connects the vehicle to the cloud and...

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  • Amazon Elastic Block Store at 15 Years

    Amazon Elastic Block Store at 15 Years

    Just after joining Amazon Web Services in 2009, I met with Andrew Certain, at that time a senior engineer on the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) team, to get into the details on how EBS...

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  • Optimizing performance of Apache Spark workloads on Amazon S3

    Optimizing performance of Apache Spark workloads on Amazon S3

    This blog covers performance metrics, optimizations, and configuration tuning specific to OSS Spark running on Amazon EKS. For customers using or considering Amazon EMR on EKS, refer to the...

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  • Sharing data on Amazon FSx for OpenZFS across Linux and Windows clients

    Sharing data on Amazon FSx for OpenZFS across Linux and Windows clients

    Many organizations need a high-performance shared file system that they can access simultaneously from Linux and Windows, despite different permission models across the platforms. For example, a...

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  • Disabling Amazon S3 access control lists with S3 Inventory

    Disabling Amazon S3 access control lists with S3 Inventory

    Access control lists (ACLs) define user access and the operations users can take on specific resources. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) was launched in 2006 with ACLs as its first...

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  • Migrating DigitalOcean Spaces to Amazon S3 using AWS DataSync

    Migrating DigitalOcean Spaces to Amazon S3 using AWS DataSync

    Organizations may at times have to transfer large amounts of object data from one cloud service provider to another. There can be several reasons for this, including data consolidation, moving...

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  • Simplify multicloud data movement wherever data is stored with AWS DataSync

    Simplify multicloud data movement wherever data is stored with AWS DataSync

    At AWS, we believe that customers get the best experience, performance, and cost when they choose to run their IT operations in the cloud. However, for a variety of reasons, some customers end up...

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  • Introducing AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault

    Introducing AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault

    Data loss events from ransomware or account compromise remain a top concern for customers. One customer need during a service restore is sharing recovery points stored in AWS Backup with other...

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  • Reduce recovery time and optimize storage costs with faster restores from Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes and Commvault

    Reduce recovery time and optimize storage costs with faster restores from Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes and Commvault

    Data is the lifeblood of any modern business. Organizations are storing more copies of their application data than ever before to recover from data loss, repair data corruption or ransomware...

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  • Authorize NFS clients outside of AWS with AWS IAM Roles Anywhere

    Authorize NFS clients outside of AWS with AWS IAM Roles Anywhere

    Securely storing and authorizing access to data in the cloud is a top priority. One challenge faced by organizations is developing a consistent authorization experience to grant access to data for...

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  • Detect malware threats using AWS Transfer Family

    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...

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  • Configuring the auto-expansion of Amazon FSx for OpenZFS with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda

    Configuring the auto-expansion of Amazon FSx for OpenZFS with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda

    Today’s demanding workloads such as database, rendering farm, analytics and ML workloads, have increasingly demanding IO requirements. These workloads need a reliable storage infrastructure that...

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  • Extending SAP workloads with AWS Transfer Family

    Extending SAP workloads with AWS Transfer Family

    Transfer protocols, such as Secure Shell (SSH) File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol Secure (FTPS), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) are essential for corporations to migrate file...

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  • Migrate on-premises data to AWS for insightful visualizations

    Migrate on-premises data to AWS for insightful visualizations

    When migrating data from on premises, customers seek a data store that is scalable, durable, and cost effective. Equally as important, BI must support modern, interactive, and fast dashboards that...

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  • Getting started with Amazon S3 compatible storage on AWS Snowball Edge devices

    Getting started with Amazon S3 compatible storage on AWS Snowball Edge devices

    Customers across numerous industries need to extend their applications from the cloud to rugged, mobile edge, and disconnected environments to capture and process data closer to where it is...

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