Amazon Web Services (AWS) eliminated the networking bandwidth burst duration limitations from storage optimized instances within its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Limitations were removed for EC2 I7i ...

New Amazon S3 Glacier storage class is designed to offer the lowest cost storage for milliseconds retrieval of archived data—also available as a new access tier in Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering New ...

At its annual re:Invent conference, AWS announced four new storage services and capabilities aimed at delivering more choice, reducing costs and helping customers better protect their data. The first ...

AWS EBS – Elastic Block Storage – customers usually massively over-provision cloud storage capacity and pay way more than they should. Capacity utilisation on EBS is between 10% and 30%, according to ...

If you want inspiration for a hyperscale, resilient distributed block storage service, apparently a jellyfish is a good place to start looking for architectural features. That is precisely what Amazon ...

Amazon today launched a new web service – EBS, the Elastic Block Store (yes I also first read it as ‘Elastic Book Store’) for EC2. EBS provides persistent storage for EC2 computing instances, and the ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) pioneered mass market, large-scale and cost-effective cloud storage when it entered the market back in 2006. The hyperscaler’s Simple Storage Service (S3) set out to make ...

“Customers rely on highly durable AWS block storage to keep their business-critical applications running at any scale,” said Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Vice President, Block and Object Storage, AWS.

Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that it’s placing more importance on “data resiliency” within its flagship Amazon Elastic Block Store service with the addition of a new feature it’s calling “crash ...