In this video, Mr. Krishnan Mani, Solutions Architect, Amazon Internet Services, shares with us the benefits of cloud storage and the security gained by using Amazon S3 and other services. Learn More: http://bit.ly/2ufuMbn Note: For the complete webinar presentation also featuring Mr. Anil Balchandani, General Manager - IT infrastructure, Eureka Forbes Limited who shares Eureka Forbes Success Story with Vaultastic, please click here: http://bit.ly/2u106ue Speaker Notes: With email archiving you are primarily concerned with backing up and restoring data and recovering from disaster or local failures. If you choose to use local storage solutions such as hard disks, network storage services, SAN, USB etc, you are always dealing with the possibility of failure of one or more of these devices from time to time and have to continuously plan and administer these services, to deal with the possibilities of failure. The Amazon S3 service gives 11 9’s of durability. This number is such an exceedingly high number, that once you put an object in S3 you need not worry about losing this object. To achieve this extremely high durability, S3 is deliberately engineered as a service. Amazon operates what are known as regions which are physical infrastructure locations across the world. Currently there are 16 regions globally. Each region consists of multiple availability zones. Availability zone is a term for one or more independent data centres. Each of these centres has redundant power, networking, connectivity, conditioning and so on. This deliberate design with Availability zones and regions helps us and customers design for and achieve very high levels of availability. So when you first write any objects to S3, S3 will store multiple copies of this object within multiple devices in different facilities across 3 availability zones, making sure that there is no data loss. Because S3 is a service, internally what happens is that S3 has both a monitoring and self healing capability. This means that the service is inspecting all these multiple copies of the data to detect any corruption. If any corruption is found, we use the redundant copies of data to ensure that any corrupt objects are restored to their original state and it is also in this way built to be automatically self healing, resulting in high durability. As mentioned earlier, the S3 service has been in used for over 10 years, serving 100’s of customers storing billions of objects and Exabyte’s of data (An Exabyte is a billion gigabytes of data). S3 provides high performance at a massive scale, in other words, when you want to store data into S3 you need not provision the amount of data you wish to store beforehand. The service automatically gives you space for any amount of data that you wish to store. When you wish to retrieve data, being a service, we are able to serve large number of requests as it is API based and there are customers who routinely perform hundreds, or thousands or even millions of API operations retrieving and putting data into S3. Besides the API level of operations that you can use to retrieve and put data, there are multiple other mechanisms for both bringing data into S3 and transferring data out of S3. These include devices such as snowball and snowmobile, as well as mechanisms such as transfer acceleration, which lets you upload large objects by taking advantage of what is called cloud front or basically edge servers that are present in multiple networks across the world. S3 today globally is also the storage service with the most comprehensive fleet of security and compliance capabilities. When you put any data in S3 it is secure by default. The data as it travels to and from S3 is protected by encryption and when the data is stored in S3 you have multiple choices to protect the data at rest. You can opt for what is called server side encryption. This means that when you take out the data, S3 takes care of encryptingthe data using a service called KMS or key management service. In addition to the server side encryption you can also choose to use client side encryption giving you two layers of protection. Amazon ensures that the operation of the S3 service is compliant with multiple data security standards and there are independent auditors who validate that the operation of the service, our infrastructure, our teams that make these services highly available are following independent standards for accreditation such as BCI Compliance, Hippa, fedramp etc. By providing a reliable storage primitive, AWS takes away all of the heavy lifting and the headache around making sure that once you archive email using Vaultastic, you will never lose it as it is using a highly available and durable service such as S3.

• published: 27 Jul 2017
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