While having a timely created backup is essential, the ease and speed of its retrieval is also a major concern. This task often requires special tools, especially when the backup data are stored on a geographically distant server which takes a long time to answer the requests. We are going to describe some Amazon features that would help.
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Moving Amazon EC2 instance to another Availability Zone, VPC or AWS Region may result in a headache for administrators, who think that it is a must to stop the existing and brand a new instance each time. If it’s a production instance, the interruption disrupts the working process and leads to the significant money/time losses. So, do you really have to migrate all the data manually? Continue reading
In MSP360 we are trying to make what works best for our customers and custom HTTP headers are no exception. This is something that was brought up many times. Continue reading
If you look for a cloud VM infrastructure, there are 3 biggest cloud systems available: Amazon Elastic Cloud 2, Google Compute Engine and Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. Since it’s still hard to choose the right one, we are going to explain key differences to make the choice easier.
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You probably already use the built-in report to monitor instance usage peaks. In the same time, it’s not unusual for developers to be unaware of AWS CloudWatch and its’ ability to collect metrics over major AWS tools, including Amazon EC2 performance and loads, send notifications via Amazon SNS, initiate auto-scaling or other actions in response to different events on schedule-basis and store instance logs.
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AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA) is an additional layer of security that offers enhanced control over your AWS account settings. It is an opt-in account feature that requires a valid six-digit, single-use code from an authentication device in your physical possession in addition to your standard AWS account credentials before access is granted to your AWS account settings. Continue reading
By default, Amazon S3 stores multiple copies of your data inside different facilities within one AWS Region. In case of region-level disaster like tornado, flood or earthquake all these facilities will experience outage and despite all precautions your crucial data may be lost. Consequences are catastrophic, especially in case of user-generated content that can’t be easily reproduced.
In this article, we compare Amazon S3 and Amazon Drive (previously Amazon Cloud Drive) — a standalone storage service designed by AWS. Continue reading
MSP360 Backup is a powerful cross-platform solution that enables you to automate backup and restore processes to various cloud storage services.
In the latest release, we are introducing an option to encrypt file and folder names in the cloud storage for enhanced security. To enable this option, simply select the Encrypt filenames checkbox on the Encryption and Compression step of the Backup Wizard. Continue reading
MSP360 Backup and MSP360 Explorer provide users with an ability to leverage the Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) service that allows you to create multiple users for one AWS account and specify access rights for each user or the set of users. Continue reading
In this blog post, we will demonstrate how to grant users access to a specific folder in a bucket.
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MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3 is a freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage. This article explains how to use its IAM Policy Wizard. The wizard allows you to create a number of users, and grant them a set of common permissions to a number of buckets and generate Login Profiles. Continue reading
