AWS Storage Blog

Backing up Oracle databases to Amazon S3 at scale

In today’s data-driven world, safeguarding critical information stored in Oracle databases is crucial for enterprises. Companies struggle to efficiently backing up vast amounts of data from hundreds of databases powering enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and critical applications. These backups must be secure, durable, and easily restorable to ensure business continuity, guard against ransomware, and […]

Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: The “extend” cloud data pattern

As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation Talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on “Extend” which is an emerging data pattern. You can also watch this four-minute video clip on the Extend data pattern if interested. Many companies find great success with the […]

Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: The “aggregate” cloud data pattern

As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on the “Aggregate” cloud data pattern, which is the most commonly adopted across AWS customers. You can also watch this six-minute video clip on the Aggregate data pattern for a […]

Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: The “curate” cloud data pattern

As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on the “Curate” data pattern, which we have seen more AWS customers adopt in the last 12-18 months as they look to leverage data sets for both analytics and AI […]

Understanding and monitoring latency for Amazon EBS volumes using Amazon CloudWatch

Organizations are continuing to build latency-sensitive applications for their business-critical workloads to ensure timely data processing. To make sure that their applications are working and performing as expected, users need effective monitoring and alarming across their infrastructure stack so they can quickly respond to disruptions that may impact their businesses. Storage plays a critical role […]

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Enhance logs for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery with CloudWatch Log Insights

Operational teams play a crucial role in making sure of the readiness and reliability of a disaster recovery (DR) solution. When these teams don’t have direct access to monitor the resources and services that make up a solution, it can create significant challenges. Logs provide insights into system behaviors, performance, and potential anomalies. When operations […]

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Streamline search and item-level recovery with AWS Backup

Recovering data after a disaster or a ransomware incident headlines today’s news. But in the day-to-day, you are more likely to recover a file from a directory than to restore an entire data set. However, doing so without being able to search and restore the specific items you need can be tedious and time-consuming. It’s […]

Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: Aggregate, curate, and extend

At AWS re:Invent, I do an Innovation Talk on the emerging data trends that shape the direction of cloud data strategies. Last year, I talked about Putting Your Data to Work with Generative AI, which not only covered how data is used with foundation models, but also how businesses should think about storing and classifying […]

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Enhance business continuity within an Availability Zone using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we recommend running workloads across multiple Availability Zones (AZ) for high availability and fault tolerance. However, there are certain situations where users need to run their workloads in a single AZ. These include legacy or commercial off the shelf (COTS) applications that don’t support deployments across multiple AZ, workloads that […]

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Analyzing Amazon S3 Metadata with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

Object storage provides virtually unlimited scalability, but managing billions, or even trillions, of objects can pose significant challenges. How do you know what data you have? How can you find the right datasets at the right time? By implementing a robust metadata management strategy, you can answer these questions, gain better control over massive data […]