AWS RE:INVENT  2018 – What’s there new  for Storage ?

 

AWS made several announcements and addition of new features  at AWS-RE:INVENT 2018 at LAS Vegas NV .

We have summarized the announcements and new features for AWS Storage and AWS- S3 below:

 

1.Amazon Elastic File System Infrequent Access: Files which has not been accessed for 30 days can be transitioned  to Infrequent Access Storage Class.

 

 

2. Object Lock: This feature helps to lock the objects in S3 for a specific time duration also known as ‘retention time’ specified by user. This feature is similar to WORM( Write Once Read Many) until retention period expires. Objects during retention period can only be read and could not  be updated.

 

 

3. AWS Glacier Deep Archival: This service helps to archival of data at the lowest cost of any AWS storage service.  This service would be helpful for customers who would be rarely accessing the archived data and wants the to be archived and maintain durability.

 

 

4. Four  New S3 Features:

 

  • One click data replication from S3 Glacier to another AWS Region
  • S3 PUT to Glacier Service
  • S3 CRR( Cross Region Replication to Glacier) ,S3 Restore Notifications ,S3 Restore Speed Upgrades
  • AWS SDK ( Software Dev. Kit) for data archival and applications.

 5 . Amazon FSx for Windows File Server: Provides native MS Windows Filesystem .

  •  No interoperability issues moving Windows based Apps to AWS.

6. Amazon FSx for Lustre: Ideal for use cases for HPC (High Performance Computing).

  Can deliver Hundreds of GB/s throughput, Millions of IOPS and sub ms latency.

7. AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized: Optimized to provide

  • 52 vCPUs
  • 7.62TB of NVMe SSD
  • 42TB of S3 compatible storage.

8. S3 Intelligent-Tiering (S3 INT) : This service monitors data access pattern and automatically migrates from Standard to Infrequent Access when data is not accessed frequently.

9. S3 Batch Operations: Single API requests for management of multiple operations of  data in S3.

10. Amazon EBS Doubles Max Performance of io1 Volumes: maximum performance of Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) volumes are up to:

  • 64,000 IOPS
  • 1,000 MB/s throughput