UPDATED 16:30 EDT / DECEMBER 06 2021

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Latest storage announcements highlight AWS focus on custom processor and need for archive data

A number of announcements during AWS re:Invent last week involved storage that actively leverages the firm’s Graviton processor technology for managed file services and redefined the meaning of archived data.

The latest news reflected a clear interest among storage executives at Amazon Web Services Inc. to push the innovation envelope within cloud environments.

“We think along multiple dimensions,” said Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec (pictured, right), vice president of block and object storage [Elastic Block Storage, Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier] at AWS. “This whole dimension of these managed file services is all about where the customer is today and how we can help them get to the cloud. We have this relentless drive to improve all of the storage platforms, and we do it across the course of the year.”

Tomsen Bukovec spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during AWS re:Invent. She was joined by Wayne Duso (left), vice president of AWS storage, edge and data governance services, and they discussed the most recent additions to the AWS storage family and a fresh look at the meaning of archived data. (* Disclosure below.)

Graviton-powered file system

The storage announcements at re:Invent included a new addition to the FSx portfolio of highly performant file systems. FSx for OpenZFS is aimed at customers who want to run fully managed versions of third-party and open-source file systems on AWS. It is also backed by one of AWS’ custom-designed processors.

“It’s powered by Graviton and all of the great capabilities that AWS brings in terms of networking, storage and compute to our customers,” Duso said. “With OpenZFS right out of the box at general availability, it has a million IOPS at sub-millisecond latencies, taking advantage of Graviton, taking advantage of our storage and networking capabilities.”

AWS also announced S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval as an archive storage class. The new offering is designed for access to long-lived data that is seldom used, though AWS takes a different view of archived data than some.

“So many people when they think about archive is taking that piece of data and putting it away on tape, putting it in a closet somewhere, and never pulling it out,” Tomsen Bukovec said. “We don’t think about archive like that. Archive just happens to be data that you just aren’t using at the moment, but when you need it, you need it right away. That’s why we built a new storage class.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. (* Disclosure: AWS sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither AWS nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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