The COVID-19 pandemic that ravaged the world in 2020, while pressing the pause button for the world, has also made it obvious to countless people around the world: the better the digital transformation of the company, the faster and more flexible the response to the pandemic. The performance during childbirth is also quicker and more prominent. For a time, the digital economy and digital transformation have also become the key research topics of the majority of enterprises.
Today, for countless companies, data is playing an irreplaceable role in driving business innovation, strengthening corporate management, improving office efficiency, improving customer experience, and helping decision making. It's no wonder that The Economist gave such an evaluation of data: "The most valuable resource in the world is no longer oil, but data."
Since data is so important to enterprises, today cloud computing is popular, as a carrier of massive data for enterprises, cloud storage has naturally become the focus of attention of enterprise users, and an important battlefield for storage service providers.
AWS storage service "Family Bucket" gathers in China
Recently, Amazon Cloud Services (AWS) officially announced that the AWS China (Ningxia) region operated by West Cloud Data and the AWS China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet have officially launched two new file storage services- Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Amazon FSx for Lustre.
Among them, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is mainly used in user file sharing, Web site services, enterprise content management, Windows applications and workloads, data analysis services, etc.; and Amazon FSx for Lustre as a high-performance file storage service on the AWS cloud , Can be widely used in machine learning, high-performance computing, electronic design automation, life sciences, autonomous driving, video rendering and other workloads that require high-performance shared storage.
For enterprise users, these two new storage services can help them achieve flexible expansion of the system, greatly reduce the complexity of operation and maintenance, and greatly reduce the time to install and deploy file systems from the past few weeks or even months to just A few minutes.
For AWS China, this move is also of great significance: it means that AWS has finally assembled the AWS storage service "Family Bucket" in the China region, which fully covers object storage, block storage, Linux file storage, Windows file storage, High-performance file storage, low-cost archive storage, and cloud backup storage, while providing cloud services to achieve PB-level data transmission to the cloud, as well as the integration of local IT environment and cloud storage.
Four advantages of AWS cloud storage
As a global leader in IaaS and PaaS, AWS is not only superior in the field of cloud computing, its extensive, in-depth, and powerful cloud storage service capabilities have also won wide recognition in the industry, and it has also been recognized by internationally renowned research institutions such as Gartner and IDC. Recognized as a leader in cloud infrastructure services.
Why is AWS cloud storage favored by customers? Gu Fan, general manager of AWS Greater China Product Department, said that this is because compared with other friends, AWS cloud storage has four obvious advantages:
1. Security and credibility: AWS storage services provide a complete set of data security mechanisms that can create secure and credible cloud services for customers;
2. Broad to deep: AWS provides a wide to deep cloud storage service, which can meet the diverse needs of customers and facilitate flexible deployment of customers;
3. High integration: AWS cloud storage services and other services such as computing, analysis, monitoring, artificial intelligence and machine learning under AWS can achieve high integration, providing one-stop cloud services, which is convenient for customers to use;
4. Open ecosystem: AWS cloud storage services have always adhered to an open ecosystem, providing standard open interfaces, and working with AWS partners to provide customers with a wider range of service options.
Facilitate the digital transformation and innovation of Chinese companies
As we all know, most of the workloads that first ran on the cloud were run on Linux, and the proportion of workloads on Windows was relatively small. Of these Windows workloads running on the public cloud, 57.7% are running on AWS. It can be seen that many business users have migrated Windows workloads to the cloud. It is precisely in order to provide these users with better technology and service support that AWS launched Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Amazon FSx for Lustre.
Gu Fan cited two very typical examples: As the world's leading SaaS service provider, Infor had to build a file storage supporting Windows load on AWS before, and it would face problems such as management, ease of deployment, and speed. However, after using Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Infor’s storage cost has been reduced by 50%, and application performance has increased by 80%. Toyota Research Institute has carried out machine learning training on object recognition, and used Amazon FSx for Lustre parallel file system to process large-scale After the data set, it not only shortens the time of machine learning training, but also integrates well with other AWS services such as Amazon S3 to provide it with an ideal high-performance file storage service.
The gathering of AWS storage service "Family Bucket" in China will undoubtedly further consolidate the leading position of AWS cloud services in China. On the other hand, the benefits that the AWS storage service "Family Bucket" brings to the majority of Chinese companies are naturally self-evident-through the rich variety and powerful AWS storage services, Chinese companies can use lower costs than before. Build the IT environment on the cloud more easily and quickly, and carry out business innovation faster.
"The primary task of the AWS Greater China team is to quickly promote AWS's global leading and proven AWS through close cooperation with Sinnet and West Cloud Data in accordance with the development of Chinese market demand and the priority of Chinese customer needs. The deployment of services in China will help Chinese customers in their digital transformation and innovation.” Gu Fan said.
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