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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 brings to the public cloud the advantages of scale, performance, and a robust feature set, including local and remote replication, high availability (HA), resiliency, and security.
The scale-out design of Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS allows for independent storage and compute instances that can be spread across AWS Availability Zones (AZs), providing resiliency if an AZ (Availability Zones) is down. Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS provides a choice of AWS disk storage for more flexibility or native attached NVMe (Non Volatile Memory Express) SSD drives for increased performance.
Some of the advantages of deploying applications with APEX Block Storage in AWS include:
This white paper presents a robust strategy for availability of SQL Server 2022 Linux instances that are deployed across AWS availability zones on Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS.