On July 6, Amazon Cloud Technology announced three major innovation upgrades at the "Cloud Storage Innovation Reshaping Data Vitality" media communication conference, providing solutions to the current pain points of enterprise cloud storage.
Business data is growing rapidly, and cloud storage has become an important pain point for enterprises' digital transformation
According to the IDC 2022 Global Datasphere report, enterprises are expected to generate 59 ZB of data in 2022, and by 2026, they are expected to generate 155 ZB of data. With the rapid growth of data volume, cloud storage has become an important foundation for the digital transformation of many enterprises. However, enterprises still face many difficulties and challenges in cloud storage. For example, how to better control the cost of cloud storage while maintaining high agility; how to process data faster for different workloads; how to ensure data security, etc.
As enterprises look to multi-cloud storage models to manage different workloads, potential problems have emerged. Due to the complexity of multi-cloud architectures, there are certain storage barriers, which makes it difficult for data to be flexibly scheduled and flow freely under multi-cloud management, and it is difficult to improve data utilization efficiency. It should be noted that the amount of data that enterprises need to store is increasing, and the amount of data that needs to be accessed and utilized in a timely manner is also increasing, and the corresponding storage costs will be much higher. Coupled with the hidden costs that cannot be accurately estimated, the TCO (total cost of ownership) of enterprise cloud storage has become a major challenge for enterprises to use cloud storage.
As a pioneer in the cloud storage business field for many years, Amazon Cloud Technology has profound technology accumulation. After sixteen years of development and iteration, Amazon Cloud Technology's cloud storage service coverage has continued to expand, and has been chosen by many enterprises. It is still on the road of innovation and upgrading to meet the ever-changing needs of enterprise users.
proposes intelligent layering technology to achieve low cost and high agility
As we all know, Amazon Cloud Technology has a long history of cloud storage services. Among them, Amazon S3 provides object storage services for enterprises, supporting the storage of any type of data in native formats. , providing enterprises with flexible storage management methods and realizing storage classification by analyzing object access patterns. After a new iteration, Amazon Cloud Technology launched Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval this time, extending the storage level of Amazon S3 to level 8 and now available as a new access layer for the S3 intelligent tiered storage class. It is understood that Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval instantly retrieves archive storage and can provide millisecond-level access capabilities. Even data that is rarely accessed can be called at any time with low latency, and data that is rarely accessed can be migrated from Amazon S3 Standard-IA. Go to Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval to save up to nearly 70% of storage costs.
Chen Xiaojian, General Manager of Amazon Cloud Technology Greater China Product Department
In addition, in order to help enterprises reduce storage costs to a greater extent, Amazon Cloud Technology has proposed intelligent layering technology for the first time. With this technology, when enterprises access data, the system will Automatically move data to the corresponding level based on the enterprise's access needs. Chen Xiaojian, general manager of the Greater China Product Department of Amazon Cloud Technology, said, "Data temperature is a concept that distinguishes data types. Amazon Cloud Technology classifies data types into different hot and cold levels based on different usage frequencies." Faced with a large amount of data, "Hot" data and "cold" data intersect and are difficult to retrieve. With the help of intelligent tiering technology, enterprises can effectively overcome the difficulty of retrieving data, thereby reducing the enterprise's storage costs. Amazon Cloud Technology has also extended this functionality to cloud-native file storage Amazon EFS. Amazon EFS provides four storage tiers. Enterprises can formulate data life cycle policies and move data to the infrequent access tier. Data can be automatically moved to the standard tier when access is needed. This tiered storage function can help customers Save up to 72% on storage costs.
launches a new generation of file storage services to meet the cloud migration needs of different workloads
As more and more enterprise customers migrate to the cloud, different business types have put forward new requirements for cloud storage functions. For workloads with high scalability, performance and cost efficiency requirements, higher and more stable file storage services are required. This time, Amazon Cloud Technology launched a new generation of Amazon FSx for Luster based on Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Compared with the previous generation service, the unit storage throughput has been increased by 5 times, and the throughput per TB of storage is as high as 1GB/second. , providing high-performance storage services for computing-intensive workloads.
In addition, a pain point that cannot be ignored is that when many enterprises migrate local applications to the cloud, they often need to build applications, tools and workflows again, spending a lot of time and energy. In response to this problem, Amazon Cloud Technology has launched Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, the first complete and fully managed NetApp ONTAP file storage system on the cloud, allowing enterprises to operate it on NetApp or other NAS without modifying their applications or data management methods. Enterprise on-device applications are migrated to Amazon Cloud Technology.
Lin Yousheng, Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing at Lenovo Lingtuo
Therefore, enterprises can easily create highly reliable shared file systems without having to manage the underlying storage services themselves, thus freeing up more time and energy to invest in applications. In terms of development and business processes, it improves development efficiency and promotes business innovation. Lin Yousheng, senior director of product management and marketing at Lenovo Lingtuo, said: "ONTAP and its data management capabilities play an integral role in many critical work tasks. With Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, we are bringing NetApp's widely trusted file storage and Data management capabilities are brought to Amazon Cloud Technology. A comprehensive managed service supported, operated and sold by Amazon Cloud Technology, allowing customers to easily deploy the power of ONTAP to almost any application. "
One-stop data backup protection data. Security
Data security protection is another important issue faced by enterprise cloud storage. If the data stored in the cloud is maliciously attacked or leaked, the consequences are unimaginable. Therefore, for enterprises, the protection of data security is the top priority. Cloud services Manufacturers also regard this link as a top priority. In this regard, Amazon Cloud Technology has adopted an effective strategy.
In January 2019, Amazon Cloud Technology released the centralized data protection service Amazon Backup, which is a comprehensive backup management service including storage, various databases and Amazon EC2 instances. It allows an enterprise user to protect multiple data Completed in one service. In the past year, Amazon Cloud Technology has expanded Amazon Backup to Amazon S3 and VMware workloads, allowing customers to configure, manage, and supervise data backup and recovery using a unified data protection strategy. Amazon Backup one-stop backup service supports more than 15 types of data source backup, including all storage services (block, file, object), as well as various databases, computing and storage gateways, and can protect Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS, Amazon FSx, Amazon Storage Gateway, Amazon DocumentDB and other data.
Specifically, Amazon Cloud Technology provides reliable protection for key data through the following methods:
1. All backup data supports KMS encryption;
2. Backup and recovery operation permissions and data access permissions can be authorized through IAM fine-grained authorization;
3 .Using Amazon Backup's centralized data backup and backup library locking function, you can effectively prevent attacks by ransomware virus . Production data is backed up to the backup library and the backup library locking function is set. Viruses or malicious operations cannot change or delete the backup library. data in;
4. The backup library supports hot and cold stratification. Recent backup data is stored in the hot backup library. Data after one week or one month can be automatically migrated to the cold backup library based on the policy. The price of the cold backup library is the hot backup library. 20% of the backup library.
Currently, Amazon Cloud Technology has launched more than 280 security and compliance services and functions, covering five major areas: threat detection and incident response, identity authentication and access control, network and infrastructure security, data protection and privacy, and risk management, control and compliance. , escorting enterprises in their digital transformation and upgrading.
As the originator of cloud storage, Amazon Cloud Technology’s storage road has been constantly advancing for 16 years. From AmazonS3 object storage, to Amazon EBS block storage, to Amazon EFS file storage, Amazon Cloud Technology continues to innovate and is reliable. It is widely praised by the industry for its performance, scalability, security and other aspects. In the future, there is no doubt that Amazon Cloud Technology will continue to make efforts in storage and bring more advanced products and services to the industry.
Text: Winter / Data Monkey
