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Hazelcast Announces a New Unified Platform with Version 5.0
Hazelcast, the distributed computation and storage platform, has announced the release of the Hazelcast Platform version 5.0. This new platform unifies the existing products Hazelcast IMDG and Hazelcast Jet. InfoQ spoke about this new release with John DesJardins, CTO at Hazelcast.
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Amazon S3 Adds New Storage Class for Long-Lived Data and Simplifies Access Management
During the latest re:Invent Amazon announced the S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class, a new storage class for rarely-accessed data that requires milliseconds retrieval. A new bucket owner enforced option lets customers disable the ACLs associated with the bucket and the objects.
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Cloudflare Challenges AWS with R2 Storage and No Egress Fees
Cloudflare has recently announced R2 storage, a S3-compatible service to store large amounts of data with no egress bandwidth fees associated. An automatic migration of objects from Amazon S3 to Cloudflare R2 will be offered to facilitate the transition or integration for existing AWS deployments.
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AWS Introduces New Intelligent Tier Options for S3 and EFS
AWS announced a few features and changes to their storage approach for S3 and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) regarding Intelligent Tiering options during the recent AWS Storage Day. The updates and changes will allow customers to leverage S3 and EFS more efficiently and cost-effectively.
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AWS Introduces Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
At AWS Storage Day 2021, the cloud provider announced Amazon FSx for ONTAP, a managed file system for ONTAP data management software. Supporting file access and storage functionalities already used by enterprise customers, the service targets the migration to the cloud of applications and workloads that require high-performance ONTAP storage.
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AWS Launches a New Type of AWS Storage Gateway: Amazon FSx File Gateway
Recently, AWS launched Amazon FSx File Gateway as a new type of AWS Storage Gateway, providing customers with a way to access data stored in the cloud with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, instead of using and managing on-premises file servers. Amazon FSx File Gateway optimizes the on-premises access of file shares by maintaining a local cache of frequently-accessed data.
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Google Provides a Peek into the Architecture of Colossus - Its Storage Foundation
In a recent post, Google provided a glimpse into the architecture of Colossus. Colossus underpins Google's scalable storage system, which serves both its Google Cloud offerings and Google's own globally available services such as YouTube, Google Drive, and Gmail. Five separate components compose Colossus - the client library, curators, metadata database, file servers, and custodians.
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Amazon Announces S3 Object Lambda: Run Code Dynamically During Retrieval
Amazon has recently announced S3 Object Lambda, a new serverless feature to add customized code and process data from S3 before returning it to an application. S3 Object Lambda works with S3 GET requests and uses AWS Lambda functions to modify data as it is being retrieved from the object storage.
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AWS Announces Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System
Recently AWS announced the new Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) One Zone storage classes, which deliver the same features and benefits as the existing Amazon EFS storage classes yet reduce storage costs by 47%. With One Zone storage classes, customers can redundantly store data within a single Availability Zone (AZ).
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Filecoin Aims to Use Blockchain to Make Decentralized Storage Resilient and Hard to Censor
Launched in 2017, Filecoin is an open-source decentralized storage network that uses blockchain to implement a cooperative digital storage and data retrieval solution. InfoQ has spoken with Filecoin software engineer Aayush Rajasekaran, who built Filecoin's Lotus implementation.
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Cockroach Labs 2021 Cloud Report: GCP Outpaces Azure and AWS
Cockroach Labs recently released their annual cloud report identifying Google Cloud Platform as the best overall provider. The 2021 Cloud Report compares AWS, Azure, and GCP on benchmarks that reflect critical applications and workloads.
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AWS Transfer Family Introduces Support for EFS
AWS has recently introduced support for Amazon EFS as a data store in the AWS Transfer Family, the managed service that handles SFTP, FTP and FTPS requests. The new option is intended to simplify the migration to the cloud of file transfer workloads.
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Amazon S3 Now Delivers Strong Read-After-Write Consistency
To guarantee higher availability and better performances, S3 has for years relied on an eventual consistency model. During the first week of re:invent, AWS announced that S3 now supports strong read-after-write consistency.
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AWS Announces New S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Access Tiers
S3 Intelligent-Tiering is a storage class, which AWS added to Amazon S3 for optimization of storage costs for its users. The company recently announced it would add two new archive access tiers designed for asynchronous access optimized for rare access at a very low cost: Archive Access tier and Deep Archive Access tier.
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Rancher Labs Makes Longhorn Generally Available
Creators of Kubernetes management platform Rancher Labs have made Longhorn, a cloud-native block storage solution, generally available. Longhorn provides a vendor-neutral persistent storage solution that supports the development of stateful applications within Kubernetes. Longhorn is open source, distributed block storage built using microservices.