All news with #storage security tag

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon EC2 I7ie instances in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region. These high-density, storage-optimized instances use 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs to boost compute, storage throughput, and latency consistency versus prior I3en instances. I7ie offers up to 120TB local NVMe, higher vCPU and memory counts, and up to 100Gbps network and 60Gbps EBS bandwidth across nine sizes. They are aimed at large, I/O-intensive workloads that need fast, low-latency local storage.

🔒 AWS Storage Gateway now supports FIPS 140-3 validated endpoints over AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 File Gateway, enabling private, FIPS-compliant traffic on the AWS network. Previously, FIPS endpoints were reachable only via the public internet. File Gateway and S3 can now be accessed through FIPS interface VPC endpoints, and gateways must run software version 2.1.10 or later to activate a FIPS PrivateLink endpoint.

🚀 Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports the Intelligent‑Tiering storage class in eight additional AWS Regions across the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America. The Intelligent‑Tiering class automatically moves data among Frequent Access, Infrequent Access, and Archive tiers based on usage patterns and can include an optional SSD read cache for active data. This provides high performance for active workloads and lower-cost storage for less-active data, with up to 85% savings versus FSx SSD and up to 20% versus on‑premises HDD NAS.

📣 You can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Single-AZ (HA) file systems in 17 additional AWS Regions across South America, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and AWS GovCloud (US). FSx for OpenZFS delivers sub-millisecond latencies, multi-GB/s throughput, and ZFS capabilities such as snapshots, data cloning, and compression. The Single-AZ (HA) option is a cost-effective choice for workloads that require high availability within a single AZ but do not need cross-AZ storage redundancy.

📦 Amazon announced that S3 Express One Zone, its high-performance storage class for latency-sensitive workloads, now supports S3 Inventory. Inventory provides a scheduled, asynchronous alternative to the synchronous List API, producing daily or weekly reports that include object metadata, encryption status, and storage class. You can configure reports via the AWS CLI, SDKs, or S3 API and choose CSV, ORC, or Parquet output, with delivery to a specified destination bucket.

🚀 Amazon announced second-generation Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in four additional Regions: Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), South America (Sao Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). The second-generation file systems deliver greater performance scalability and flexibility compared with first-generation deployments, enabling up to 12 highly-available (HA) pairs per file system. That configuration provides workloads with up to 72 GBps of throughput and up to 1 PiB of provisioned SSD storage. You can deploy second-generation Multi-AZ file systems with a single HA pair, and Single-AZ file systems with up to 12 HA pairs, broadening choices for redundancy and capacity.

📁 S3 Files provides a shared, high-performance file system that lets any AWS compute resource access data directly in Amazon S3 with full file-system semantics and low-latency performance, without moving objects out of S3. Built on Amazon EFS, it maintains a live view of bucket objects and translates file operations into efficient S3 requests so applications and agents run unchanged. It caches active data for fast reads, delivers multi-terabytes-per-second aggregate throughput, and is generally available in 34 AWS Regions.

🔁 Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces a multi-tier storage option using OpenSearch Optimized (OI2) instances that combine local instance storage with Amazon S3 to enhance durability and performance. The architecture provides a hot tier for frequently accessed data and a writeable warm tier on OI2 (sizes large–8xlarge) that supports writes and automated age-based rotation via Index State Management. Warm capacity is addressable up to five times the local cache, and standard Managed Storage charges apply.

🗂️ Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports File Server Resource Manager (FSRM), enabling file classification, file screening, folder-level quotas, and storage reporting for managed Windows file systems. FSRM events can be published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or streamed to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and used to trigger AWS Lambda for automated responses and workflows. The capability is available today at no additional cost for new file systems across all Regions where FSx is offered; existing file systems will gain support during a scheduled maintenance window.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made Amazon EC2 I8g storage-optimized instances generally available in Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Osaka). Built on the AWS Nitro System and using third-generation Nitro SSDs, I8g delivers up to 65% better storage performance per TB, plus lower I/O latency and reduced latency variability versus I4g. The family spans up to 48xlarge and one metal size with up to 1.5 TiB memory, 45 TB local NVMe storage, and up to 100 Gbps network performance, targeting transactional databases, NoSQL, real-time analytics, and LLM pre-processing workloads.

🔒 Customers can now attach boot and data volumes backed by Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 arrays to Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts, with support for authenticated and encrypted volumes. This extends external block volume support alongside NetApp and Pure Storage, enabling use of on‑premises enterprise arrays for OS boot volumes and high‑performance data volumes. AWS provides automation scripts via AWS Samples and access through the Console or CLI; third‑party integration is available on Outposts 2U servers and racks at no additional charge.

⚡ Azure today released Azure Container Storage v2.0.0, a performance-first update that delivers up to 7× higher IOPS, 4× lower latency, and improved resource efficiency for Kubernetes stateful workloads. The release adds built-in support for local NVMe drives, removes prior pricing tiers for large pools, and is available as an open-source local CSI driver for non-AKS clusters. Optimized for storage- and GPU-optimized VM families, the update also enables single-node deployments and integrates with KAITO to speed AI model loading and scaling.

🔍 AWS has expanded AWS Transform assessment to analyze on‑premises detached storage infrastructures, including SAN, NAS, file servers, object stores and virtual environments. The new capability maps existing storage to AWS targets such as Amazon S3, Amazon EBS and Amazon FSx, and delivers a comparative Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis. It also provides performance and cost optimization recommendations for compute and storage workloads, noting storage can represent up to 45% of migration opportunities. The assessment is available in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt).