After previously explaining how to create immutable storage within Amazon S3, Brien Posey details some additional capabilities such as automated data lifecycle management or the ability to place a ...

For many years, the dominant protocols to access shared storage have been block and file. Block-based access provides the ability, as the name suggests, to update individual blocks of data on a ...

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While on-premise object storage is a minority interest, relatively speaking, object storage in the cloud is huge. It is its natural home, and AWS’s S3 is the big beast that roams there. While it’s ...

The new capability, called Amazon S3 Files, lets applications running on AWS access an S3 storage bucket as if it were a local file system, reading and writing data using standard file operations ...

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S3 Files, a native file system interface on top of Amazon Simple Storage Service offers developers simplicity and CIOs a more unified, cost-efficient data architecture, analysts say. Amazon Web ...

Brien Posey demonstrates Object Lock and other functionality for immutable storage on the AWS cloud, often used for compliance mandates and increasingly in conjunction with backup and recovery ...

The approach: S3 Files uses a “stage and commit” model, borrowing the concept from version control systems like Git: changes accumulate on the file system side and are pushed back to S3 as whole ...