The fifth annual AWS Storage Day passed off on Aug. 9, 2023 and you’ll be able to 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 submit, I wrote in regards to the fixed improvements in AWS Storage aimed toward serving to you place your knowledge to work whereas retaining it safe and guarded. This yr, Storage Day is concentrated on storage for AI/ML, knowledge safety and resiliency, and the advantages of shifting to the cloud.

AWS Storage Day Key Themes
In relation to storage for AI/ML, knowledge volumes are growing at an unprecedented charge, exploding from terabytes to petabytes and even to exabytes. With a contemporary knowledge structure on AWS, you’ll be able to quickly construct scalable knowledge lakes, use a broad and deep assortment of purpose-built knowledge companies, scale your methods at a low value with out compromising efficiency, share knowledge throughout organizational boundaries, and handle compliance, safety, and governance, permitting you to make choices with pace and agility at scale.
To coach machine studying fashions and construct Generative AI functions, you will need to have the appropriate knowledge technique in place. So, I’m blissful to see that, among the many checklist of classes 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 knowledge 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 have now sources that can assist you shield your knowledge and meet your enterprise continuity goals. Our knowledge safety and resiliency options and options may also help you meet your enterprise continuity objectives and ship catastrophe restoration throughout knowledge loss occasions, throughout restoration level and time goals (RPO and RTO). With the unprecedented knowledge progress occurring on the earth as we speak, figuring out the place your knowledge is saved, the way it’s secured, and who has entry to it’s a greater precedence than ever. Make sure to be a part of the Shield knowledge in AWS amid a quickly evolving cyber panorama session to be taught extra.

When shifting knowledge to the cloud, it is advisable to perceive the place you’re shifting it for various use instances, the forms of knowledge you’re shifting, and the community sources accessible, amongst different issues. There are numerous causes to maneuver to the cloud, not too long ago, Enterprise Technique Group (ESG) validated that organizations decreased compute, networking, and storage prices by as much as 66 p.c by migrating on-premises workloads to AWS Cloud infrastructure. ESG confirmed that migrating on-premises workloads to AWS supplies organizations with decreased prices, elevated efficiency, improved operational effectivity, quicker time to worth, and improved enterprise agility.
We have now various classes that debate 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 is able to talk about issues for workloads that may’t totally transfer to the cloud.

Tune in to be taught from consultants about new bulletins, management insights, and academic content material associated to the broad portfolio of AWS Storage companies and options that tackle all these themes and extra. As we speak, we have now 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 submit titled 15 Years of AWS Running a blog! On this submit, Jeff talked about a couple of posts he wrote for the earliest AWS companies and options. Amazon Elastic Block Retailer (Amazon EBS) is on this checklist as a service that simplifies the usage of Amazon EC2.

Properly, it’s been 15 years because the launch of Amazon EBS was introduced, and as we speak we have fun 15 years of this service. Should you have been one of many unique customers who put Amazon EBS to good use and offered us with the very useful suggestions that helped us invent and simplify, iterate and enhance, I’m certain you’ll be able to’t consider how time flies. As we speak, Amazon EBS handles greater than 100 trillion I/O operations day by day, and over 390 million EBS volumes are created every single day.

Should you’re new to Amazon EBS, be a part of us for a fireplace chat with Matt Garman, Senior Vice President, Gross sales, Advertising and marketing, and International Companies at AWS, and be taught 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’ll be able to connect as much as 128 Amazon EBS volumes, a rise from 28 on a earlier era M6i occasion. The upper variety of quantity attachments means you’ll be able to enhance storage density per occasion and enhance useful resource utilization, lowering complete compute value.

You may host as much as 127 containers per occasion for bigger database functions and scale them extra cheaply earlier than needing to provision extra situations and solely pay for sources you want. With a better variety of quantity attachments, you’ll be able to 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’ll be able to create, for as much as 128 EBS volumes connected to an occasion, enabling you to create crash-consistent backups of all volumes connected 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 usually accessible, Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a brand new open supply file shopper that delivers excessive throughput entry, decreasing compute prices for knowledge 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’ll be able to mount an Amazon S3 bucket as a neighborhood file system in your compute occasion, to entry your objects via a file interface with the elastic storage and throughput of Amazon S3. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 helps sequential and random learn operations on current recordsdata, and sequential write operations for creating new recordsdata.

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

Put Chilly Storage to Work Sooner with Amazon S3 Glacier Versatile Retrieval
Amazon S3 Glacier Versatile Retrieval improves knowledge restore time by as much as 85 p.c, at no extra value. Sooner knowledge restores robotically apply to the Normal retrieval tier when utilizing Amazon S3 Batch Operations. These restores start to return objects inside minutes, so you’ll be able to course of restored knowledge quicker. Processing restored knowledge in parallel with ongoing restores helps you speed up knowledge 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 knowledge, you’ll be able to pace up your knowledge 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 knowledge restores of all sizes now profit from each quicker begins and shorter completion occasions.

Be part of the Maximize the worth of chilly knowledge with Amazon S3 Glacier session to find out how Amazon S3 Glacier helps organizations of all sizes and from all industries remodel their knowledge archiving to unlock enterprise worth, enhance agility, and save on storage prices. Learn this weblog submit to be taught extra in regards to the Amazon S3 Glacier Versatile Retrieval efficiency enhancements and observe step-by-step steerage on get began with quicker 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 companies, every concentrating on a distinct set of wants. Amazon EFS is a serverless file system constructed to ship an elastic expertise for sharing knowledge 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 knowledge.

Energy ML analysis and large knowledge analytics with Amazon EFS
Amazon EFS provides 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 quicker 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 run extra demanding workflows, similar to machine studying (ML) analysis with KubeFlow, monetary simulations with IBM Symphony, and large knowledge 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 flexibility to maneuver chilly knowledge to Amazon S3. File launch extends FSx for Lustre’s S3 integration by releasing file knowledge that’s synchronized with S3 from Lustre. You may launch knowledge out of your FSx for Lustre file system by working or scheduling launch knowledge repository duties, which allow you to specify standards for which recordsdata to launch. Use file launch to tier colder knowledge to Amazon S3 and let customers and functions proceed to write down new knowledge to FSx for Lustre. If wanted, you’ll be able to rapidly and simply retrieve launched file knowledge and entry recordsdata which have been launched as a result of the file metadata for launched recordsdata stays in your FSx for Lustre file system.

Be part of the Run compute-heavy workloads at cloud scale session to be taught 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’ll be able to benefit from 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 similar to monetary companies analytics, media and leisure workflows, semiconductor chip design, and sport improvement and streaming, as much as 21 GB per second of throughput and over 1 million IOPS for often accessed cached knowledge, and as much as 10 GB per second and 350,000 IOPS for knowledge accessed from persistent disk storage.

Be part of the Migrate NAS to AWS to cut back TCO and acquire agility session to be taught 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 speed up time-to-results for performance-intensive workloads similar 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, through the use of FSx for Home windows File Server, you’ll be able to provision IOPS greater than the default 3 IOPS per GiB on 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 cut back TCO and acquire agility session to be taught extra in regards to 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 knowledge safety resolution that permits prospects to centralize and automate backup restores throughout 19 AWS companies (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party functions similar to VMware Cloud on AWS and on-premises, in addition to SAP HANA on Amazon EC2.

As we speak, we’re saying the preview of logically air-gapped vault as a brand new sort of AWS Backup Vault that acts as a further layer of safety to mitigate in opposition to malware occasions. With logically air-gapped vault, prospects can get better their utility knowledge via a distinct trusted account.

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

Copy Information to and from Different Clouds with AWS DataSync
AWS DataSync is a web-based knowledge motion and discovery service that simplifies knowledge migration and helps you rapidly, simply, and securely switch your file or object knowledge to, from, and between AWS storage companies. Along with assist of knowledge migration to and from AWS storage companies, DataSync helps copying to and from different clouds similar to Google Cloud Storage, Azure Information, and Azure Blob Storage. Utilizing DataSync, you’ll be able to transfer your object knowledge at scale between Amazon S3 appropriate storage on different clouds and AWS storage companies similar to Amazon S3. We’re now increasing the assist of DataSync for copying knowledge 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 knowledge migrations at scale session to be taught 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 might be dwell beginning at 9:00 AM Pacific Time (12:00 PM Japanese Time) on August 9. All classes might be accessible on demand roughly two days after Storage Day.

We stay up for seeing you on Twitch!

– Veliswa