Cloud storage 101: We run the rule over file, block and object storage from the big three public cloud providers: AWS, Azure and GCP. We look at what’s on offer and the use cases they are aimed at.

SSD storage is most appropriate for situations that work with smaller data blocks. This would be in cases where you have high transactional activity, as with databases, or possibly with boot ...

AWS recently introduced the EC2 I4i instance type for data-intensive storage and IO-heavy workloads requiring fast access to medium-sized datasets. The new instances can benefit high-performance real- ...

“Is4gen instances are a great fit for applications that do large amounts of random I/O to large amounts of SSD storage,” AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr wrote in an AWS blog on Tuesday. “This includes ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) pioneered mass market, large-scale and cost-effective cloud storage when it entered the market back in 2006. The hyperscaler’s Simple Storage Service (S3) set out to ...

AWS’s High I/O Quadruple Extra Large instance in…EC2 includes 2TB of local SSD. … [Amazon] says it can achieve…120,000 random read [and] 85,000 write IOPS. …it’s aimed at NoSQL ...

The only trade-off, AWS said, is slightly higher per operation latency for the files in the IA storage tier. At February launch, the the EFS IA storage class was priced at $0.045/GB per month; AWS ...

AWS server-side encryption is being abused in ... Attackers access storage buckets with exposed AWS keys; ... This tiny NAS can store up to 32TB of super-fast SSD data and even comes with a VPN ...

AWS’ cloud storage products and new tools include support for NetApp, ... Now, customers can configure SSD IOPS independently from storage capacity up to a ratio of 500 IOPS per GiB.

AWS said the new storage class is priced 85 percent lower than the existing SSD storage class and 20 percent lower than traditional HDD-based deployments on-premises, and brings full elasticity ...