Tag: AWS Cloud Storage

Learn how to configure ONTAP tree quotas on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to enforce per-workload capacity boundaries within a shared volume. This post walks through creating qtrees, defining quota policy rules with hard limits, soft limits, and thresholds, activating enforcement, and monitoring consumption using native quota reports and EMS events.

Managing massive digital collections is hard. When you’re preserving decades of historical content and adding new materials daily, making that content discoverable matters more than the storage itself. Vanderbilt University Library discovered this firsthand while managing their extensive digital archives, including the renowned Vanderbilt Television News Archive (VTNA). Amazon S3 Metadata accelerates data discovery by […]

Organizations delivering content on a global scale rely on distributed edge networks to cache and serve billions of requests daily. These architectures depend on highly aggressive Time-To-Live (TTL) configurations to maximize performance and minimize origin load. On a cache miss, the network falls through to the origin to retrieve the requested content. At this scale, […]

Many organizations operate thousands of Amazon S3 buckets in a single AWS Region, each with its own configuration accumulated over the years. Some were created manually in the AWS Management Console and others by scripts that are no longer actively maintained, provisioned by different business units with their own policies, lifecycle rules, encryption, and tags. […]

Organizations are increasingly adopting cloud-based identity solutions to reduce infrastructure overhead and improve their security posture. For customers running file workloads on AWS, both Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server require joining a Microsoft Active Directory domain to serve SMB file shares and support Windows-based authentication. When customers have […]

Knowing who accessed your data, when, and how is the foundation for security investigations, compliance audits, cost attribution, and performance troubleshooting. Detailed access logs capture every request: who made it, which resource was accessed, and what response was returned. In practice, though, they arrive as semi-structured records spread across different locations. Turning them into actionable […]

Enterprises increasingly need direct access to data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for analytics, reporting, collaboration, and decision-making. Enabling this access for non-technical users can be challenging: training staff on the AWS Management Console, building custom portals, or adopting third-party tools each carry trade-offs in cost, complexity, or security posture. And as […]

As industries generate and store growing volumes of data, gaining meaningful insights into storage usage becomes increasingly complex. You need to understand your data growth patterns and drivers while optimizing storage investments across different business units and workloads. However, obtaining the necessary visibility by data categories, departments, or applications remains operationally difficult, limiting the ability […]

Learn how to use CIFS share-level access controls with qtrees on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to enforce per-team access boundaries within a shared volume, preventing unauthorized share access and simplifying access management through Active Directory group membership.

The most capable multi-agent AI systems share a common trait: they give agents the right context at the right time. When agents lack access to shared history, including what other agents discovered, what tasks are already complete, and what decisions were made in previous sessions, they might duplicate work, contradict each other, and burn through […]