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Many customers have adopted an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) process within their organization to streamline and optimize provisioning infrastructure. Without an IaC practice in place, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage the scale of today’s infrastructure. IaC can help your organization manage IT infrastructure needs while also improving consistency and reducing errors and manual configuration. […]

Editor’s note: Before reading about cross-Region disaster recovery using private connectivity in this blog, learn how to install an AWS DRS agent in a secured network in this blog. Update 5/7/2024: Steps for creating a security group that allows port 443 from the source VPC added to section “2. Establish private connectivity” and steps for […]

Storage administrators who are using managed services need a way to monitor the health of their resources, in order to detect any changes in resource health or accessibility that might require their attention or intervention. For administrators managing large fleets of resources, this monitoring needs to be efficient and scalable so that any alerts are […]

Update (3/13/2023): When creating a target group, the Network Load Balancer currently verifies that the target IP is part of a subnet in the specified VPC, which means the approach outlined in this blog cannot be employed anymore. A core architecture principle of building highly available applications on AWS is to use a multi-Availability Zone […]

Update (12/12/2022): Depending on your specific RTO and RPO requirements, we recommend evaluating the use of Elastic Disaster Recovery along with database native replication methods, such as SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) for SAP HANA. Disasters due to natural calamities, application failures, human errors, or ransomware cause not only downtime for business applications, but also […]

Organizations in regulated industries are frequently required to maintain a copy of their business-critical file data in another location to meet corporate compliance or disaster recovery (DR) mandates. Furthermore, in highly distributed environments, applications need a reliable method to move or copy their file data to a different location for low latency access or to […]

Note (5/11/2023): The sample solution provided in this blog post does not support Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) with Azure Active Directory. Managing users at scale across multiple systems can become a time-intensive process, adding undue burden to system administrators. User management is increasingly complex when customers operate file transfer workloads that share data across different internal […]

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Stateful applications rely on data being persisted and retrieved to run properly. When running stateful applications using Kubernetes, state needs to be persisted regardless of container, pod, or node crashes or terminations. This requires persistent storage, that is, storage that lives beyond the lifetime of the container, pod, or node. In this blog, we cover […]

When using Windows file services, enterprise customers often have the requirement to identify potential security breaches and unauthorized access attempts. Traditionally, customers rely on Windows file server file access auditing to capture and analyze audit records to gain these insights and strengthen their security posture. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed shared […]