Category: Foundational (100)

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 […]

Isima.io, a unified analytics startup founded in 2016, aims to accelerate analytics outcomes for organizations. Isimia.io does this by combining multiple data management disciplines – including Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), Enterprise-Data-Warehouse (EDW), and Business Intelligence (BI) – into one hyper-converged system. IT teams can only win by building differentiated, agile data apps. The […]

File systems are an essential component of organizations. Among the most common requirements of any organization is access to shared data storage, which is readily available on via cloud infrastructures. An issue that has slowed migration to the cloud has been that tools and processes can be very different, requiring time to re-educate administrators. Amazon […]

Last year at re:Invent 2021 Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) released a new storage class called Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, as well as additional improvements to the Amazon S3 Glacier offerings. Many AWS Storage partners were excited about the new storage class as detailed in the blog “Storing data with AWS Partner solutions […]

On behalf of the entire AWS Storage team, I am excited to welcome you to our 11th annual event, whether you’ll attend in person or virtually. AWS re:Invent 2022 is here, featuring an exciting slate of sessions on AWS Storage use cases, best practices, and technical deep dives. On-site in Vegas? Attend the AWS Storage […]

If you are new to AWS and trying to figure out which Storage services to use, how to use them, and best practices, it can be challenging to find guidance that you can trust. The depth of features and options means that even experienced users can identify better solutions with continuous learning. But how do […]

UPDATE (4/25/2023): DataSync Discovery is now generally available. For more information on additional capabilities and extended availability, view the What’s New post and visit the feature page. Migrating your on-premises data to the cloud can be intimidating at first, particularly when you are working with large and complex storage systems. Estimating costs, understanding which data […]

Devo is a cloud-native, multi-tenant centralized log management platform used by some of the world’s largest organizations to ingest, secure and enable real-time querying and analytics of their data. When managing data for major brand-name retail, financial services, and public sector organizations as Devo does, there’s no room for error when it comes to the […]