Category: Foundational (100)

Effective October 28, 2024, new customers will no longer be able to create a new Amazon FSx File Gateway (FSx File Gateway). If you would like to use the service, please create an FSx File Gateway prior to October 28, 2024. To begin using FSx File Gateway, customers can navigate to the Storage Gateway console in AWS […]

Disaster recovery (DR) is an important part of resilience and defines the process of preparing and recovering from a disaster. A disaster can be defined as any event that causes a serious negative impact to your business. How you respond to these unforeseen events has traditionally been a tradeoff between the cost of the solution, […]

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to close new customer access to Amazon S3 Select and Amazon S3 Glacier Select, effective July 25, 2024. Amazon S3 Select and Amazon S3 Glacier Select existing customers can continue to use the service as usual. AWS continues to invest in security and availability improvements for Amazon […]

Customers in Manufacturing, Real Estate, Engineering and Construction, Healthcare and other related industries often have remote facilities with limited network bandwidth where large amounts of data generated at the edge needs to be stored, processed and analyzed for making decisions in real time. For example, applications running in manufacturing plants need low latency access to […]

The threat of ransomware has placed data protection front and center as a top priority for all businesses. The Sophos State of Ransomware Report 2023 reported that 66% of organizations were impacted in 2022 with a median ransomware payout of $400,000 (average pay out of $1.54 million). With the median recovery cost of using backups […]

Organizations continue to grow their data lakes in the cloud as they build out new and innovative analytics, machine-learning, and generative AI workloads. At the same time, these workloads often access data that requires compliance with stringent data security and privacy standards. These compliance frameworks typically specify additional requirements for encryption at-rest, which leads customers […]

AWS re:Invent 2023 is happening November 27th through December 1st in Las Vegas Nevada. AWS re:Invent offers cloud enthusiasts, experts, and practitioners an experience like no other. You get five days of opportunities to find productive solutions that will transform your company and your pick of 2,000+ learning sessions to quickly master new skills. And, […]

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 was implemented and what plans were looking forward. Andrew took me through the details of this remote block storage […]

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 created. Today, many of these customers use third-party storage solutions at the edge. This approach requires significant effort to rearchitect applications for both cloud and edge […]

Update (4/27/2023): Amazon S3 now automatically enables S3 Block Public Access and disables S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets in all AWS Regions. Storing data securely is a key tenet for every business. Companies balance this against the need to share data where and when it’s needed. Human security review is a […]