New – AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS Now Supports Amazon EFS
AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for containers, is available for both Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). With Fargate, developers can concentrate on application development without the hassle of managing underlying infrastructure. Resources for each Kubernetes pod can be specified, and users are charged solely for what they use. For a deeper dive into this topic, check out this related blog post.
New – High-Performance HDD Storage for Amazon FSx for Lustre File Systems
By Michael Thompson
August 12, 2020
In Amazon FSx for Lustre, Storage
Numerous workloads, such as genome analysis, machine learning training, High Performance Computing (HPC), and analytics applications require multiple compute instances to access shared data. For these scenarios, clusters of compute instances are linked to a high-performance shared file system. Amazon FSx for Lustre simplifies and makes it cost-effective to manage these data sets. For authoritative insights, visit this site.
New – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets
By Sarah Johnson
July 31, 2020
In Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Announcements, Compliance, Launch, News, Security, Storage
As we mentioned in previous updates, the detection of anomalies and threats for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) activities has been improved and made more cost-effective by over 80% as part of Amazon GuardDuty. This enhancement broadens GuardDuty’s threat detection capabilities beyond just workloads and AWS accounts, aiding in the protection of your storage resources efficiently.
Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots
By Sarah Johnson
July 21, 2020
In Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Snapshots are a crucial component of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), enabling users to create block-level, point-in-time copies of their volumes for backup or disaster recovery purposes. These snapshots are incremental; only the data modified since the last snapshot is copied. Additionally, users can share snapshots across AWS Regions or accounts.
Create Snapshots From Any Block Storage Using EBS Direct APIs
By Sarah Johnson
July 9, 2020
In Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Announcements
I am excited to share that it’s now possible to create Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots from any block storage data, including on-premises volumes, data from other cloud providers, existing block data stored on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), or even your own laptop. This opens a new avenue for customers embracing cloud solutions for disaster recovery.
Introducing AWS Snowcone – A Small, Lightweight, Rugged, Secure Edge Computing, Edge Storage, and Data Transfer Device
By Linda Park
June 17, 2020
In AWS Snowcone, Launch, News
Last month, I provided an update on AWS Snowball Edge, showcasing new features like faster storage-optimized devices. Today, I am thrilled to introduce AWS Snowcone, which offers a compact, rugged solution for edge computing and secure data transfer.
New – A Shared File System for Your Lambda Functions
By Linda Park
June 16, 2020
In Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), Announcements, AWS Lambda, Compute, Launch, News, Serverless, Storage
As of July 1, 2020, I’m pleased to announce that AWS Lambda functions can now mount an Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), a scalable and elastic NFS file system that stores data across multiple availability zones.
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server – Storage Size and Throughput Capacity Scaling
By Michael Thompson
June 1, 2020
In Amazon FSx, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Announcements, Launch, News, Storage
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server offers fully managed, reliable file storage accessible via the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, built on Windows Server. It includes a variety of administrative features like user quotas, end-user file restoration, and integration with Microsoft Active Directory, mimicking the experience of on-premises Windows environments.
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