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UPDATE (17 January 2023):  Organizations of all sizes want to increase agility, accelerate innovation, improve security, and reduce costs by migrating on-premises applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Many of these applications store the data they rely on in NAS (network-attached storage) appliances powered by NetApp ONTAP, which provide storage and data management features that […]

AWS GovCloud (US) hosts sensitive data and regulated workloads. It also addresses the most stringent U.S government security and compliance requirements. For customers using AWS GovCloud (US), the ability to recover workloads is a top priority in order to keep business running as usual and adhere to relevant compliance requirements. Getting quickly back up and […]

Electronic Arts (EA) is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. We make games that touch 450+ million players across console, PC, and mobile including top franchises such as FIFA, Madden, and Battlefield. All of our games are instrumented with telemetry that help our teams in building, enhancing, and operating these world-class player experiences at […]

AWS customers look for ways to simplify access to corporate SFTP environments by enabling end users with familiar and supported browser-based user interfaces. Traditional approaches when using commercial or open-source FTP software packages present various challenges. First, corporate IT resources have to install and maintain software packages across end-user devices and operating systems. Secondly, end […]

UPDATE (2/10/2022): Amazon S3 Batch Replication launched on 2/8/2022, allowing you to replicate existing S3 objects and synchronize your S3 buckets. See the S3 User Guide for additional details. Customers are increasingly building multi-region applications where they keep multiple copies of their data in geographically isolated locations for reduced latency, compliance, security, disaster recovery, and […]

Many organizations use single sign-on (SSO) to ensure security and compliance, streamline access management, and improve their user experience. Some organizations require all corporate applications, workloads, and solutions to use SSO for authentication, including their disaster recovery (DR) solution. You can integrate CloudEndure Disaster Recovery, offered by AWS, into your identity provider’s (IdP) SSO using […]

Update (6/14/2022): The “Copying objects across accounts” section has been updated to reflect the new Amazon S3 Object Ownership feature, an S3 bucket-level setting that you can use to disable access control lists (ACLs) and take ownership of every object in your bucket. You no longer need to configure your cross-account AWS DataSync task to […]

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 […]

Many AWS customers frequently look for ways to lower operational costs and complexity of managing their backup operations. With Amazon 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 […]

In a previous blog, I introduced several concepts on optimizing operational costs in CloudEndure Disaster Recovery. The main cost driver when using CloudEndure Disaster Recovery, offered by AWS, is Amazon EBS. A challenge arises when choosing the right volume type for the workload, across the multiples volumes that may be attached. This becomes a trial-and-error […]