Welcome to AWS Storage Day 2021

Welcome to the third annual AWS Storage Day 2021! Throughout Storage Day 2020 and the first-ever Storage Day 2019 we made many impactful bulletins for our clients and this yr will probably be no completely different. The one-day, free AWS Storage Day 2021 digital occasion will probably be hosted on the AWS channel on Twitch. You’ll hear from specialists about bulletins, management insights, and academic content material associated to AWS Storage companies.

The primary a part of the day is the management monitor. Wayne Duso, VP of Storage, Edge, and Knowledge Governance, will probably be presenting a reside keynote. He’ll share details about what’s new in AWS Cloud Storage and the way these companies can assist companies improve agility and speed up innovation. The keynote will probably be adopted by reside interviews with the AWS Storage management staff, together with Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, VP of AWS Block and Object Storage.

The second a part of the day is a technical monitor wherein you’ll study extra about Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Block Retailer (EBS), Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), AWS Backup, Cloud Knowledge Migration, AWS Switch Household and Amazon FSx.

To register for the occasion, go to the AWS Storage Day 2021 occasion web page.

Now as Jeff Barr likes to say, let’s get into the bulletins.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
At present, we’re happy to announce Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a brand new storage service that permits you to launch and run absolutely managed NetApp ONTAP file programs within the cloud. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP joins Amazon FSx for Lustre and Amazon FSx for Home windows File Server as the most recent file system supplied by Amazon FSx.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP supplies the complete ONTAP expertise with capabilities and APIs that make it straightforward to run functions that depend on NetApp or network-attached storage (NAS) home equipment on AWS with out altering your software code or the way you handle your knowledge. To study extra, learn New – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

Amazon S3
Amazon S3 Multi-Area Entry Factors is a brand new S3 characteristic that permits you to outline international endpoints that span buckets in a number of AWS Areas. Utilizing this characteristic, now you can construct multi-region functions with out including complexity to your functions, with the identical system structure as in case you had been utilizing a single AWS Area.

S3 Multi-Area Entry Factors is constructed on prime of AWS International Accelerator and routes S3 requests over the worldwide AWS community. S3 Multi-Area Entry Factors dynamically routes your requests to the bottom latency copy of your knowledge, so the add and obtain efficiency can improve by 60 %. It’s an ideal resolution for functions that depend on studying information from S3 and in addition for functions like autonomous automobiles that want to jot down plenty of knowledge to S3. To study extra about this new launch, learn The best way to Speed up Efficiency and Availability of Multi-Area Purposes with Amazon S3 Multi-Area Entry Factors.

There’s additionally nice information concerning the Amazon S3 Clever-Tiering storage class! The situations of utilization have been up to date. There isn’t a longer a minimal storage length for all objects saved in S3 Clever-Tiering, and monitoring and automation prices for objects smaller than 128 KB have been eliminated. Smaller objects (128 KB or much less) should not eligible for auto-tiering when saved in S3 Clever-Tiering. Now that there is no such thing as a monitoring and automation cost for small objects and no minimal storage length, you should use the S3 Clever-Tiering storage class by default for all of your workloads with unknown or altering entry patterns. To study extra about this announcement, learn Amazon S3 Clever-Tiering – Improved Value Optimizations for Quick-Lived and Small Objects.

Amazon EFS
Amazon EFS Clever Tiering is a brand new functionality that makes it simpler to optimize prices for shared file storage when entry patterns change. Once you allow Amazon EFS Clever-Tiering, it is going to retailer the information within the acceptable storage class on the proper time. For instance, if in case you have a file that’s not used for a time frame, EFS Clever-Tiering will transfer the file to the Rare Entry (IA) storage class. If the file is accessed once more, Clever-Tiering will routinely transfer it again to the Commonplace storage class.

To get began with Clever-Tiering, allow lifecycle administration in a brand new or present file system and select a lifecycle coverage to routinely transition information between completely different storage courses. Amazon EFS Clever-Tiering is ideal for workloads with altering or unknown entry patterns, equivalent to machine studying inference and coaching, analytics, content material administration and media property. To study extra about this launch, learn Amazon EFS Clever-Tiering Optimizes Prices for Workloads with Altering Entry Patterns.

AWS Backup
AWS Backup Audit Supervisor permits you to simplify knowledge governance and compliance administration of your backups throughout supported AWS companies. It supplies customizable controls and parameters, like backup frequency or retention interval. You may also audit your backups to see in the event that they fulfill your organizational and regulatory necessities. If one in every of your monitored backups drifts out of your predefined parameters, AWS Backup Audit Supervisor will let you already know so you may take corrective motion. This new characteristic additionally lets you generate stories to share with auditors and regulators. To study extra, learn The best way to Monitor, Consider, and Display Backup Compliance with AWS Backup Audit Supervisor.

Amazon EBS
Amazon EBS direct APIs now assist creating 64 TB EBS Snapshots straight from any block storage knowledge, together with on-premises. This was elevated from 16 TB to 64 TB, permitting clients to create the most important snapshots and recuperate them to Amazon EBS io2 Block Categorical Volumes. To study extra, learn Amazon EBS direct API documentation.

AWS Switch Household
AWS Switch Household Managed Workflows is a brand new characteristic that permits you to scale back the handbook duties of preprocessing your knowledge. Managed Workflows does plenty of the heavy lifting for you, like organising the infrastructure to run your code upon file arrival, constantly monitoring for errors, and verifying that each one the modifications to the info are logged. Managed Workflows helps you deal with error situations in order that failsafe modes set off when wanted.

AWS Switch Household Managed Workflows permits you to configure all the mandatory duties directly in order that duties can routinely run within the background. Managed Workflows is obtainable at this time within the AWS Switch Household Administration Console. To study extra, learn Switch Household FAQ.

Be part of us on-line for extra!
Don’t overlook to register and be part of us for the AWS Storage Day 2021 digital occasion. The occasion will probably be reside at eight:30 AM Pacific Time (11:30 AM Japanese Time) on September 2. The occasion will instantly re-stream for the Asia-Pacific viewers with reside Q&A moderators on Friday, September three, at eight:30 AM Singapore Time. All periods will probably be obtainable on demand subsequent week.

We look ahead to seeing you there!

— Marcia