AWS Storage Blog

Operational excellence isn’t just about efficiency—it’s about delivering consistent availability when customers need it most. Achieving this requires sophisticated, real-time monitoring that tracks key system metrics and storage insights, such as throughput patterns, IOPS utilization, I/O characteristics, and storage distribution. This visibility enables teams to resolve issues proactively, right-size resources, optimize workload placement, and plan […]

Organizations with petabytes of data in the cloud need a way to apply immutable storage protections to data that’s already been stored—whether for regulatory compliance or cyber resilience. Although you can enable write-once-read-many (WORM) controls for newly created storage, applying these protections to existing enterprise data at scale requires a systematic approach. Regulated industries have […]

As customers deployed increasingly diverse cloud workloads and confronted more sophisticated cyber threats, they needed data protection solutions that could scale across their AWS estate while guaranteeing recovery even in worst-case scenarios. This dual challenge shaped our focus in 2025 for AWS Backup: expanding the service’s reach across the AWS ecosystem while deepening our commitment […]

The fast pace of the logistics industry necessitates real-time vehicle fleet tracking for maintaining a competitive edge and meeting customer expectations. Traditional methods often provide delayed or incomplete information, leading to inefficiencies and missed opportunities. The demand for accurate, up-to-the-minute data on vehicle locations, driver behavior, and route performance has never been higher. Companies need […]

Organizations running mission-critical applications and databases face challenges to ensure their systems can withstand unexpected storage performance degradation. Storage latency issues can emerge unpredictably in production environments and impact the business. Although unit, integration, and regression testing ensure that systems work under normal conditions, they don’t cover unexpected failures that result in expensive outages. This […]

Organizations frequently upload compressed TAR files to Amazon S3 for efficient data transfer, but downstream applications often need extracted files for processing. Although AWS Glue excels at processing splittable files across worker nodes, TAR files need single-node processing, traditionally forcing teams to manually provision servers, monitor extraction jobs, and manage resource cleanup. This post demonstrates […]

Organizations of all sizes run their enterprise applications and databases in the cloud. These organizations may choose to run self-managed databases on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) rather than using the fully-managed Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) due to internal policies, Amazon RDS service maximums, and other reasons. When running self-managed databases in the cloud, there […]

As users progress in their cloud journey, they increasingly need robust storage options that integrate natively with containers to help them increase operational efficiency, improve performance, and reduce costs. Our users are finding that using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) meets this demand by using the Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver. In this post, […]

As enterprises scale their adoption of generative AI, one of the biggest technical challenges is connecting AI applications to the right data and making that data fast, accessible, and secure. AI agents are transforming industries through applications like customer support automation, personalized e-commerce recommendations, and research assistance in financial services and healthcare. These applications require […]

As applications scale, developers face a persistent challenge: analytical queries that slow down transactional databases, force them to copy data across multiple proprietary tools, and create disconnected data silos. For the 5 million developers building on Supabase, an open source Postgres development platform, this tension between operational and analytical workloads has become increasingly critical. The […]