An organization may have both on-premises and cloud-based storages running on different platforms while hosting a copy of each other’s data, then the organization has to implement a software mechanism to keep data on both storages in sync. Organizations using Amazon’s AWS can enhance the integration of their on-premises storage appliances with the respective AWS storage. The new AWS...
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November 2011, Amazon launches a new AWS region in Oregon. The new Pacific Northwest US region supports S3, EC2 with Auto Scaling features, SimpleDB, RDS, SQS, SNS, Elastic MapReduce, CloudFormation and CloudWatch. Pricing is similar to other US regions while, customers from the west region can now benefit from a second region that provides...
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As mid 2011, over 449 billion objects are residing at Amazon’s S3 cloud storage and these objects generate about 290K requests per second at peak times. Last April it was about 250, an increase of about quarter of a trillion in less than four months. Read more here. To put you into perspective, Amazon compares the number of Objects...
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Java’s latest SDK for AWS includes a client-side encryption feature which automatically encrypts/decrypts data when uploading/downloading to/from Amazon S3. This feature uses a technique known as envelope encryption and it has to be enabled through the application code. The Envelope and Master keys are never transmitted with the data. You can use this feature to integrate...
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Amazon S3 storage main functionality is to host files such as, images, videos, static files, etc. which are retrieved or stored by applications running on websites, backend servers or even remotely such as in the case of remote online data backups. However, many customers run static websites which in principle should be able to...
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Is there a storage limit for Amazon S3? The recent storage statistics released by Amazon show steady growths over the last four years. The number of Objects stored in S3 has reached quarter of a trillion! While the peak request rate for S3 is over 200, 000 requests per second. This is what makes...
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