Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure

Successfully moving workloads to the public cloud or hinging your entire business on AWS infrastructure can be a tricky endeavor. Companies must possess a strong understanding of all facets of the Amazon cloud, including instance types, reliability zones as well as ancillary products available within the cloud infrastructure.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure News

September 23, 2020 23 Sep'20
Backup vendors ready for AWS Outposts

Commvault, Veritas, Cohesity, Clumio and Rubrik are certified as AWS Outposts Ready, ensuring their data protection products are supported on the Amazon-owned on-premises platform.
August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20
Nutanix launches clusters for AWS

Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix puts clusters on AWS, enabling common management of applications and workloads on premises and in the public cloud.
July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20
Backblaze cloud offers free S3 migration service

Backblaze provides a point-and-click migration service out of Amazon S3. In related news, the Backblaze S3-compatible APIs became generally available.
June 26, 2020 26 Jun'20
Qumulo cloud upgrade transforms files to Amazon object format

Qumulo Shift for Amazon Web Services S3 copies data directly to Amazon Simple Storage Service, without mount points or application rewrites, to enable file sharing directly in AWS.

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Cloud application performance management (cloud APM) is the process of monitoring resources that support software application performance in public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud environments, and ultimately taking actions to resolve issues ... Continue Reading
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Use cases for object storage ramp up to meet emerging demands

Computational and storage advances are expanding the role of object storage beyond traditional HPC and cloud to emerging data analytics, machine learning and deep learning use cases. Continue Reading
4 tips for proper cyber hygiene during the remote workforce era

IT services firms have a responsibility to secure their clients' remote workforces. Here are four tips for maintaining cyber hygiene in the cloud, using AWS as an example. Continue Reading
VPC security best practices and how to implement them in AWS

To best secure network access, AWS administrators need to create rules for network resources. Learn how to implement Amazon VPC security best practices in this book excerpt. Continue Reading

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Hands-on guide to S3 bucket penetration testing

Attention AWS pen testers: The trick to understanding the indicators of AWS S3 bucket vulnerabilities is setting up an insecure bucket. Learn how in this actionable guide. Continue Reading
How to handle Amazon S3 bucket pen testing complexity

Security researcher Benjamin Caudill shares details from his book, 'Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux,' and advice on Amazon S3 bucket pen testing for ethical hackers. Continue Reading
Overcome these VMware Cloud on AWS migration challenges

Plan ahead for a VMware-to-AWS cloud migration with this breakdown on common challenges organizations face during the move to VMware Cloud on AWS, and how to avoid them. Continue Reading