Welcome to AWS Storage Day 2023

The fifth annual AWS Storage Day came about on Aug. 9, 2023 and you’ll see the replay right here. The primary AWS Storage Day was hosted in 2019, and this occasion has grown into an innovation day that we stay up for delivering to you yearly. In final yr’s Storage Day put up, I wrote concerning the fixed improvements in AWS Storage aimed toward serving to you place your information to work whereas holding it safe and guarded. This yr, Storage Day is targeted on storage for AI/ML, information safety and resiliency, and the advantages of shifting to the cloud.

AWS Storage Day Key Themes
In relation to storage for AI/ML, information volumes are growing at an unprecedented charge, exploding from terabytes to petabytes and even to exabytes. With a contemporary information structure on AWS, you possibly can quickly construct scalable information lakes, use a broad and deep assortment of purpose-built information providers, scale your methods at a low value with out compromising efficiency, share information throughout organizational boundaries, and handle compliance, safety, and governance, permitting you to make selections with velocity and agility at scale.
To coach machine studying fashions and construct Generative AI functions, you need to have the fitting information technique in place. So, I’m pleased to see that, among the many checklist of periods to stay up for on the dwell occasion, the Optimize generative AI and ML with AWS Infrastructure session will talk about how one can remodel your information into significant insights.

Whether or not you’re simply getting began with the cloud, planning emigrate functions to AWS, or already constructing functions on AWS, we’ve got sources that will help you shield your information and meet what you are promoting continuity goals. Our information safety and resiliency options and options may also help you meet what you are promoting continuity targets and ship catastrophe restoration throughout information loss occasions, throughout restoration level and time goals (RPO and RTO). With the unprecedented information progress taking place on the earth as we speak, figuring out the place your information is saved, the way it’s secured, and who has entry to it’s a greater precedence than ever. You’ll want to be part of the Shield information in AWS amid a quickly evolving cyber panorama session to study extra.

When shifting information to the cloud, you have to perceive the place you’re shifting it for various use instances, the kinds of information you’re shifting, and the community sources accessible, amongst different concerns. There are numerous causes to maneuver to the cloud, not too long ago, Enterprise Technique Group (ESG) validated that organizations lowered compute, networking, and storage prices by as much as 66 % by migrating on-premises workloads to AWS Cloud infrastructure. ESG confirmed that migrating on-premises workloads to AWS supplies organizations with lowered prices, elevated efficiency, improved operational effectivity, sooner time to worth, and improved enterprise agility.
We’ve got quite a lot of periods that debate the right way to transfer to the cloud, based mostly in your use case. I’m most trying ahead to the Hybrid cloud storage and edge compute: AWS, the place you want it session, which can talk about concerns for workloads that may’t totally transfer to the cloud.

Tune in to study from specialists about new bulletins, management insights, and academic content material associated to the broad portfolio of AWS Storage providers and options that tackle all these themes and extra. At this time, we’ve got bulletins associated to Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon FSx for Lustre, Amazon FSx for Home windows File Server, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, and extra.

Let’s get into it.

15 Years of Amazon EBS
Not way back, I used to be studying Jeff Barr’s put up titled 15 Years of AWS Running a blog! On this put up, Jeff talked about just a few posts he wrote for the earliest AWS providers and options. Amazon Elastic Block Retailer (Amazon EBS) is on this checklist as a service that simplifies using Amazon EC2.

Effectively, it’s been 15 years for the reason that launch of Amazon EBS was introduced, and as we speak we have fun 15 years of this service. When you have been one of many authentic customers who put Amazon EBS to good use and supplied us with the very useful suggestions that helped us invent and simplify, iterate and enhance, I’m certain you possibly can’t imagine how time flies. At this time, Amazon EBS handles greater than 100 trillion I/O operations every day, and over 390 million EBS volumes are created day by day.

When you’re new to Amazon EBS, be part of us for a fireplace chat with Matt Garman, Senior Vice President, Gross sales, Advertising, and World Providers at AWS, and study the technique and buyer challenges behind the launch of the service in 2008. You’ll additionally hear from long-term EBS buyer, Stripe, about its progress with EBS since Stripe was launched 12 years in the past.

Amazon EBS has constantly improved its scalability and efficiency to assist extra buyer workloads because the direct storage attachment for Amazon EC2 situations. With the launch of Amazon EC2 M7i situations, powered by customized 4th Era Intel Xeon Scalable processors, on August 2, you possibly can connect as much as 128 Amazon EBS volumes, a rise from 28 on a earlier technology M6i occasion. The upper variety of quantity attachments means you possibly can enhance storage density per occasion and enhance useful resource utilization, decreasing whole compute value.

You may host as much as 127 containers per occasion for bigger database functions and scale them extra affordably earlier than needing to provision extra situations and solely pay for sources you want. With the next variety of quantity attachments, you possibly can totally make the most of the reminiscence and vCPU accessible on these highly effective M7i situations as your database storage footprint grows. EBS can be growing the variety of multi-volume snapshots you possibly can create, for as much as 128 EBS volumes hooked up to an occasion, enabling you to create crash-consistent backups of all volumes hooked up to an occasion.

Be part of the 15 years of improvements with Amazon EBS session for a dialogue about how the unique imaginative and prescient for Amazon EBS has developed to fulfill your rising calls for for cloud infrastructure.

Mountpoint for Amazon S3
Now typically accessible, Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a brand new open supply file shopper that delivers excessive throughput entry, reducing compute prices for information lakes on Amazon S3. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a file shopper that interprets native file system API calls to S3 object API calls. Utilizing Mountpoint for Amazon S3, you possibly can mount an Amazon S3 bucket as an area file system in your compute occasion, to entry your objects by way of a file interface with the elastic storage and throughput of Amazon S3. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 helps sequential and random learn operations on current information, and sequential write operations for creating new information.

The Deep dive and demo of Mountpoint for Amazon S3 session demonstrates the right way to use the file shopper to entry objects in Amazon S3 utilizing file APIs, making it simpler to retailer information at scale and maximize the worth of your information with analytics and machine studying workloads. Learn this weblog put up to study extra about Mountpoint for Amazon S3 and the right way to get began, together with a demo.

Put Chilly Storage to Work Sooner with Amazon S3 Glacier Versatile Retrieval
Amazon S3 Glacier Versatile Retrieval improves information restore time by as much as 85 %, at no extra value. Sooner information restores routinely apply to the Normal retrieval tier when utilizing Amazon S3 Batch Operations. These restores start to return objects inside minutes, so you possibly can course of restored information sooner. Processing restored information in parallel with ongoing restores helps you speed up information workflows and rapidly reply to enterprise wants. Now, whether or not you’re transcoding media, restoring operational backups, coaching machine studying fashions, or analyzing historic information, you possibly can velocity up your information restores from archive.

Coupled with the S3 Glacier enhancements to revive throughput by as much as 10 occasions for tens of millions of objects introduced in 2022, S3 Glacier information restores of all sizes now profit from each sooner begins and shorter completion occasions.

Be part of the Maximize the worth of chilly information with Amazon S3 Glacier session to learn the way Amazon S3 Glacier helps organizations of all sizes and from all industries remodel their information archiving to unlock enterprise worth, enhance agility, and save on storage prices. Learn this weblog put up to study extra concerning the Amazon S3 Glacier Versatile Retrieval efficiency enhancements and comply with step-by-step steerage on the right way to get began with sooner normal retrievals from S3 Glacier Versatile Retrieval.

Supporting a Broad Spectrum of File Workloads
To serve a broad spectrum of use instances that depend on file methods, we provide a portfolio of file system providers, every focusing on a special set of wants. Amazon EFS is a serverless file system constructed to ship an elastic expertise for sharing information throughout compute sources. Amazon FSx makes it simpler and cost-effective so that you can launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file methods within the cloud, enabling you to maneuver to the cloud with no adjustments to your code, processes, or the way you handle your information.

Energy ML analysis and massive information analytics with Amazon EFS
Amazon EFS gives serverless and totally scalable file storage, designed for top scalability in each storage capability and throughput efficiency. Simply final week, we introduced enhanced assist for sooner learn and write IOPS, making it simpler to energy extra demanding workloads. We’ve improved the efficiency capabilities of Amazon EFS by including assist for as much as 55,000 learn IOPS and as much as 25,000 write IOPS per file system. These efficiency enhancements assist you to to run extra demanding workflows, corresponding to machine studying (ML) analysis with KubeFlow, monetary simulations with IBM Symphony, and massive information processing with Domino Information Lab, Hadoop, and Spark.

Be part of the Construct and run analytics and SaaS functions at scale session to listen to how latest Amazon EFS efficiency enhancements may also help energy extra workloads.

File launch on Amazon FSx for Lustre
File launch for Amazon FSx for Lustre helps customers handle their high-performance Lustre file system and save prices by giving them the power to maneuver chilly information to Amazon S3. File launch extends FSx for Lustre’s S3 integration by releasing file information that’s synchronized with S3 from Lustre. You may launch information out of your FSx for Lustre file system by working or scheduling launch information repository duties, which allow you to specify standards for which information to launch. Use file launch to tier colder information to Amazon S3 and let customers and functions proceed to write down new information to FSx for Lustre. If wanted, you possibly can rapidly and simply retrieve launched file information and entry information which have been launched as a result of the file metadata for launched information stays in your FSx for Lustre file system.

Be part of the Run compute-heavy workloads at cloud scale session to study extra about file launch for Amazon FSx for Lustre.

Multi-AZ file methods on Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
Now you can use a multi-AZ deployment possibility when creating file methods on Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, making it simpler to deploy file storage that spans a number of AWS Availability Zones to supply multi-AZ resilience for business-critical workloads. With this launch, you possibly can make the most of the ability, agility, and ease of Amazon FSx for OpenZFS for a broader set of workloads, together with business-critical workloads like database, line-of-business, and web-serving functions that require extremely accessible shared storage that spans a number of AZs.

The brand new multi-AZ file methods are designed to ship excessive ranges of efficiency to serve a broad number of workloads, together with performance-intensive workloads corresponding to monetary providers analytics, media and leisure workflows, semiconductor chip design, and sport growth and streaming, as much as 21 GB per second of throughput and over 1 million IOPS for continuously accessed cached information, and as much as 10 GB per second and 350,000 IOPS for information accessed from persistent disk storage.

Be part of the Migrate NAS to AWS to scale back TCO and achieve agility session to study extra about multi-AZs with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS.

New, Larger Throughput Capability Ranges on Amazon FSx for Home windows File Server
Efficiency enhancements for Amazon FSx for Home windows File Server assist you to speed up time-to-results for performance-intensive workloads corresponding to SQL Server databases, media processing, cloud video modifying, and digital desktop infrastructure (VDI).

We’re including 4 new, greater throughput capability ranges to extend the utmost I/O accessible as much as 12 GB per second from the earlier I/O of two GB per second. These throughput enhancements include correspondingly greater ranges of disk IOPS, designed to ship a rise as much as 350,000 IOPS.

As well as, by utilizing FSx for Home windows File Server, you possibly can provision IOPS greater than the default three IOPS per GiB to your SSD file system. This lets you scale SSD IOPS independently from storage capability, permitting you to optimize prices for performance-sensitive workloads.

Be part of the Migrate NAS to AWS to scale back TCO and achieve agility session to study extra concerning the efficiency enhancements for Amazon FSx for Home windows File Server.

Logically Air-Gapped Vault for AWS Backup
AWS Backup is a completely managed, policy-based information safety answer that allows clients to centralize and automate backup restores throughout 19 AWS providers (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party functions corresponding to VMware Cloud on AWS and on-premises, in addition to SAP HANA on Amazon EC2.

At this time, we’re saying the preview of logically air-gapped vault as a brand new kind of AWS Backup Vault that acts as an extra layer of safety to mitigate towards malware occasions. With logically air-gapped vault, clients can get well their software information by way of a special trusted account.

Be part of the Deep dive on information restoration for ransomware occasions session to study extra about logically air-gapped vault for AWS Backup.

Copy Information to and from Different Clouds with AWS DataSync
AWS DataSync is an internet information motion and discovery service that simplifies information migration and helps you rapidly, simply, and securely switch your file or object information to, from, and between AWS storage providers. Along with assist of knowledge migration to and from AWS storage providers, DataSync helps copying to and from different clouds corresponding to Google Cloud Storage, Azure Information, and Azure Blob Storage. Utilizing DataSync, you possibly can transfer your object information at scale between Amazon S3 suitable storage on different clouds and AWS storage providers corresponding to Amazon S3. We’re now increasing the assist of DataSync for copying information to and from different clouds to incorporate DigitalOcean Areas, Wasabi Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, Cloudflare R2 Storage, and Oracle Cloud Storage.

Be part of the Establish and speed up information migrations at scale session to study extra about this expanded assist for DataSync.

Be part of Us On-line
Be part of us as we speak for the AWS Storage Day digital occasion on the AWS On Air channel on Twitch. The occasion can be dwell beginning at 9:00 AM Pacific Time (12:00 PM Japanese Time) on August 9. All periods can be accessible on demand roughly two days after Storage Day.

We stay up for seeing you on Twitch!

– Veliswa