Category: Storage

The AWS Storage Gateway can now  be run in the  Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization environment. You can use the Storage Gateway to marry your existing on-premises storage systems with the AWS cloud for backup, departmental file share storage, or disaster recovery. With today’s launch of support for Hyper-V, you can now use the Storage Gateway on-premises […]

I’m writing to you from the floor of AWS re:Invent, where a capacity crowd is learning all about the latest and greatest AWS developments. As part of the welcoming keynote, AWS Senior VP Andy Jassy announced that were reducing prices again. This is our 24th price reduction – we continue to innovate on our customers […]

Update (October 2019) – The range retrieval function described in this post is part of Amazon S3 Glacier’s InitiateJob function. You cannot use the S3 API to initiate a range retrieval on an object that has the Glacier storage class. Amazon Glacier is designed for storing data that is infrequently accessed. Once you have stored […]

(Editor’s note, April 22, 2022: Since this article was originally published, additional helpful resources have also become available, including Getting started using the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes and Best practices for archiving large datasets with AWS.)   AWS provides you with a number of data storage options. Today I would like to focus on […]

For today’s episode of The AWS Report, I spoke to Colin Lazier, a Senior Development Manager on the AWS Storage Team. Colin and I talked about Amazon Glacier and how it can be used to archive data for long periods of time. I learned that Glacier uses anti-entropy techniques to guard against data loss. We […]

As you can tell from my recent post on Amazon S3 Growth for 2011, our customers are uploading new objects to Amazon S3 at an incredible rate. We continue to innovate on your behalf to drive down storage costs and pass along the resultant savings to you at every possible opportunity. We are now happy […]

We’ve reduced the prices for Amazon S3 storage again. As is always the case, the cost to store your existing data will go down. This is markedly different than buying a hard drive at a fixed cost per byte and is just one of the many advantages of using cloud-based storage. You can also count […]

We continue to enhance Amazon CloudFront at a rapid pace. Here’s the latest and greatest: We’ve added a new edge location in New York City. This location will provide even better performance to users requesting your content from New York and the northeastern United States. We’ve reduced pricing for CloudFront HTTP requests by 25%. The […]