Amazon Promotes New Tool to Protect Cloud Customers From Attacks

Jassy said the 45ft, ruggedised, truck-drawn version is a response to customers who wanted to move much larger volumes of data to the cloud. Now we know that how hard it would be transfer that much of data that too quickly. At the AWS re:Invent conference now taking place, Amazon introduced a new service called Lightsail, essentially a carbon copy of DigitalOcean. The Snowmobile can be filled in about 10 days at maximum speed, according to a blog post from AWS evangelist Jeff Barr.

The company is now such the 800-pound gorilla in the market that one of its original huge competitors, VMware, threw in the towel earlier this year and signed on to help sell AWS and make its data center software work better with the cloud.

Amazon has revealed a new service to transfer hundreds of petabytes of data as soon as possible to the cloud. The truck follows the 80 TB AWS Snowball device Amazon introduced past year, which, while capable of transferring 1 PB per week to AWS, may not be sufficient for customers with large-scale on-premise storage.

The cloud holds many benefits from cost-effectiveness, to nearly infinite scalability, to being used as a backup/DR location amongst others. It’s a shipping container measuring 9.6 by 8 by 45 feet, and is capable of storing 100 petabytes of data. AWS will provide security while the Snowmobile is on site, as well as an escort during transit. The customer then initiates the data transfer and when the process is finally complete, the 18-wheeler hauls the container back to Amazon to import the data as specified by the customer.

The Snowball Edge, by contrast, is created to be a more easily portable and compute-heavy appliance. AWS also introduced Snowball Edge, a smaller version of the Snowmobile.

It holds 100TB of data, compared to the Snowball’s 80TB, and also sports a touchscreen for interacting with the device.

At the AWS re:Invent event, Amazon has announced a host of new services that highlight its commitment to enterprises. With AWS Greengrass, devices can run AWS Lambda functions to perform tasks locally, keep device data in sync, and communicate with other devices while leveraging the full processing, analytics, and storage power of the AWS Cloud.

This tool will provide developers with the important data regarding the health of the infrastructure involved in running applications.

Although it eliminates the need for using standard Big Data tools primarily found in the open source Apache Software Foundation ecosystem such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive and Pig, its underlying architecture is based on another Apache project, the Presto distributed SQL engine. More than 260 P/C insurers around the world have selected Guidewire.