AWS Storage Blog

Category: Management & Governance

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 […]

Uncover new performance insights using Amazon EBS detailed performance statistics

As businesses increasingly rely on latency-sensitive applications for mission-critical workloads, the need to understand performance across the entire technology stack is essential to swiftly resolve performance bottlenecks that could affect application efficiency. Given that storage performance and stability directly impact application efficiency, reliability, scalability, and user experience, it is paramount for organizations to have the […]

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Data preservation with AWS Backup legal holds

Customers globally, especially in regulated industries, require centralized protection and demonstrable compliance for their application data. Auditors often require customers such as broker-dealers, securities exchanges, and stock brokerage firms, to prove compliance with SEC, FINRA, and CFTC requirements by providing an assessment report from an industry-recognized entity with additional disclosure that they have capabilities to […]

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Obtain aggregated daily cross-account multi-Region AWS Backup reporting

UPDATE (2/3/2022): Source code extended to support AWS Backup for Amazon S3. UPDATE (6/24/2022): Source code updated to support tag extraction to support cost allocation reporting. UPDATE (5/5/2025): This post was originally developed and tested for Python 3.7. An update to this post featuring Python 3.12 will be published 6/30/25. Customers treat data as an […]