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Running mission-critical applications in the public cloud is gaining popularity as businesses adopt the benefits of cloud operations, including agility, ease of use, security, a robust set of software tools and services, and dynamic scale.
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS (formerly known as PowerFlex cloud storage on AWS) brings PowerFlex advantages of scale, performance, and a robust feature set, including local and remote replication, high availability (HA), resiliency, and CloudIQ security.
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS can be rapidly deployed through a web portal that automates the initial deployment, or used to expand an existing PowerFlex system, making the process simple and quick. PowerFlex scale-out design allows for independent storage and compute instances that can be spread across AWS Availability Zones (AZs), providing higher resiliency if an AZ is down. Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS provides a choice of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for more flexibility, or native attached NVMe SSD drives for increased performance.
This paper explains the best practices to backup data to Amazon S3 using DD Boost File System (BoostFS) for generic applications and Oracle RMAN agent for Oracle databases that are deployed on Dell APEX Block storage for AWS.