Tag: s3

  • What is an Availability Zone destruction? Should I care?

    The resilience of the One Zone-IA option is not the same. Even Amazon suggests it for backups or easily re-creatable data only.

  • S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage is (almost) dead

    As a software developer and architect I have spent countless hours discussing the benefits, the costs and the challenges of deprecating an API or a service in a product. AWS has the opportunity and the business model to skip the entire discussion and simply use the pricing element to make a service useless. Let’s take…

  • Transparent server side encryption on S3

    I would like to take advantage of Server-Side Encryption with Amazon S3-Managed Encryption Keys for some existing buckets where I have some legacies applications storing data without S3 encryption. Encryption of data at rest is of course important and with the chance of doing it on AWS with a simple flag (or one line of…