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Direct Supply bolsters availability migrating to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Direct Supply, the leading provider of products and services to the Long-Term Care industry, migrated the bulk of our IT systems to AWS in early 2019. In the run-up to our cut over, we had five Server Message Block (SMB) file systems that needed to live alongside the applications they support. This meant that roughly […]

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Migrate data from Google Drive to Amazon S3 using Rclone

Whether you choose to operate entirely on AWS or in multicloud and hybrid environments, one of the primary reasons to adopt AWS is the broad choice of services we offer, enabling you to innovate, build, deploy, and monitor your workloads. Amazon S3 is a great option for Google Drive users seeking a comprehensive storage solution. […]

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Securing your Amazon FSx for ONTAP Windows Share (SMB) against Viruses

Organizations want to securely store and access their data, while adhering to security best practices by deploying and enforcing various policies. This includes using antivirus programs to scan and disinfect data at rest and on-access to help align with various compliance standards. Since the release of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, many customers are migrating […]

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Designing sustainable disaster recovery strategies

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, […]

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Automatically scan for public Amazon S3 buckets and block public access

Data is a valuable asset for an organization and users are always looking for simple tools to protect their data from unauthorized access. While some use cases do require data to be publicly accessible at times, most enterprise use cases and data privacy depend on strictly managed permissions and no public access. Enterprises use Amazon […]

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Secure data in a multi-tenant environment by automatically enforcing prefix-level encryption keys in Amazon S3

Many organizations need to store and process data that belong to multiple entities, commonly referred to as multi-tenancy. In these situations, it is important to secure every tenant’s data and ensure that a consumer can only access the data that they require for their responsibilities and nothing more. In particular, if a user or application […]

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Simplify Active Directory authentication with a custom identity provider for AWS Transfer Family

The secure exchange of files business-to-business is a common and important business practice in highly regulated industries. As organizations grow, maintaining separate user credentials for various platforms, such as file transfer services, can become increasingly complex and time-consuming. As customers build out Managed File Transfer (MFT) environments, often they end up having to create separate, […]

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Building cyber resiliency with AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault

Enterprise users use AWS Backup for centralized data protection as part of a defense-in-depth architecture. Its features generally fulfill users’ data security and regulatory requirements, but there is demand for additional resiliency against ransomware incidents. Meeting the recovery objectives often involves creating multiple copies of data backups, developing and maintaining custom code for backup processes, […]

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How Vivian Health is using Amazon S3 Express One Zone to accelerate healthcare hiring

Vivian Health connects travel nurses with job opportunities across the country. To do that, the platform has innovated not just the job search itself, but also the tooling used by recruiters and hiring managers to get qualified candidates matched to the right job and placed as quickly and as seamlessly as possible. However, the process […]

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Establish private connectivity for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery using AWS Direct Connect

As the size of an organization’s disaster recovery (DR) implementation grows, we often see the role of the network grow in importance. The relationship between DR and the network should not come as a surprise, as we expect network performance and the ability to replicate data between the source environment and the DR site to […]