Object storage
S3 multipart uploads: Finding unfinished upload costs
A bucket listing shows completed objects. It does not show the parts of multipart uploads that were started and never finished, and those parts consume ...
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Object storage
S3 lifecycle policies: Testing before deleting data
A lifecycle policy is a small piece of configuration that deletes data continuously, without confirmation, and without any human involvement after the moment ...
Object storage
S3 versioning costs: Where hidden capacity goes
Versioning is one of the most useful features in object storage and one of the most common causes of capacity that nobody can account for. The mechanism is ...
Object storage
Object storage rebuilds: What affects recovery time?
Every storage system tolerates a defined number of simultaneous failures. What matters operationally is how long it spends at reduced protection after one ...
Object storage
S3 request performance: Why throughput is not enough
Object storage is usually specified in gigabytes per second, which suits the workloads it was first adopted for. Backup streams and media archives move large ...
Cyber resilience
Backup anomaly detection: Which storage signals matter?
Backup infrastructure sees the whole estate every night, which makes it an unusually good vantage point for noticing that something has changed. Most ...
Cyber resilience
Backup retention changes: Preventing silent exposure
Deleting a backup is an event. Shortening a retention policy is a settings change, and it produces the same outcome more quietly: copies expire on their new ...
Cyber resilience
Ransomware recovery exercises: What to measure
Most organizations run some form of recovery exercise, and most produce a report that says it went well, with a list of observations and a note to repeat next ...
Cyber resilience
Backup isolation testing: Can production reach copies?
Most backup architectures include something described as isolated: an air gapped copy, a segmented repository, a vault. The description is usually accurate ...
Cyber resilience
Backup configuration recovery: Protecting the catalog
A backup repository holds objects. The catalog is what turns those objects into recoverable systems: which files belong to which backup, which backup belongs ...