Amazon FSx for Lustre now provides highly-durable file system backups

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon FSx for Lustre now provides highly-durable file system backups Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that makes it easy and cost-effective to launch and run the world’s most popular high-performance file system, now enables you to take highly-durable backups of your file systems. This capability makes it easy to further protect…

Tracking your Oracle licenses using AWS License Manager

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedTracking your Oracle licenses using AWS License Manager Introduction Many of our customers are running Oracle databases in AWS. They have asked for help with managing their Oracle licenses. In response, AWS has released some new features to AWS License Manager to help customers manage their Oracle licenses running in AWS. AWS…

Accelerating Agility with 12 Attributes for Mainframe Workloads

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAccelerating Agility with 12 Attributes for Mainframe Workloads By Phil de Valence, Principal Solutions Architect for Mainframe Modernization at AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy says, “The main reasons that organizations are moving to the cloud are speed and agility.” Mainframes typically host core business processes and data. To stay…

Low-latency computing with AWS Local Zones – Part 1

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedLow-latency computing with AWS Local Zones – Part 1 This post was contributed by: Pranav Chachra, Rob Chen, Alan Goodman AWS launched a Local Zone in Los Angeles (LA), California, in late 2019 at re:Invent. Since the launch, we have seen a lot of interest from you, and have worked to bring…