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Organizations looking to move some or all of their file systems to cloud storage have choices. The options from the two biggest public cloud service providers are Microsoft Azure Files, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), or Amazon FSx. All these platforms offer cloud-based serverless storage, allowing you to avoid maintaining complex file systems. This article compares these options based on 4 key parameters –…

Amazon has released new security updates for its Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) services. First of all, Amazon GuardDuty is getting new malware protection capabilities to detect malicious files stored on container workloads or customer instances running on Amazon EC2. For those unfamiliar, Amazon GuardDuty is a managed cloud…

VB.NET is a Windows-only technology. So, moving these applications to other platforms can be difficult. But Amazon has come to the rescue with its new AWS Porting Assistant. Over the years a lot of businesses have developed all sorts of applications in VB.NET. And today, many of them are looking for ways to modernize these…

This past July 6, 2022, Amazon announced the release of two new technologies that enable the streamlined deployment of .NET applications on Amazon Web Services. The new AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio as well as the new AWS Deploy Tool for the .NET CLI enable you to get your .NET application up and running in…

At its past re:MARS conference last week, Amazon announced that Amazon CodeWhisperer is now available in preview. Amazon CodeWhisperer is a code development tool that uses machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to help developers write better code and reduce routine and repetitive work. Thinking back to my early developer days, I remember how…

First introduced back in November 2021 at AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced the general availability of AWS Mainframe Modernization this past June 8th 2022. The new service enables you to migrate and modernize your on-premises mainframe workloads to a managed runtime environment on the Amazon Web Services cloud. It seems incredible to believe, but the venerable…

Amazon announced a couple of weeks ago that AWS DataSync now supports moving data between AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. This release expands the number of supported storage locations from 10 to 12, which is significant as it now includes two of the major cloud providers. For those unfamiliar, AWS DataSync is Amazon’s enterprise-grade…

Amazon Elastic File System (AWS EFS) is an easy-to-use and serverless storage solution allowing companies to optimize file storage in Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this article, we’ll show you how to set up and test access to an EFS file system with an AWS EC2 instance. What is AWS EFS? Amazon Elastic File System…

While businesses have been adopting the cloud and cloud services at an ever-increasing rate not everybody has made the move to the cloud. There are still businesses that are evaluating the different cloud providers and their offerings and here is what Amazon offers for ‘free’.

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) allows EC2 instances, AWS Lambda functions and containers to share access to a fully-managed, high performance and highly available file system. Amazon EFS delivers low-latency performance for a wide variety of workloads and can scale to thousands of concurrent clients or connections. EFS can scale automatically and you only pay for…