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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 Public Cloud 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 CloudIQ security.
Dell APEX Block Storage for Public Cloud can be rapidly deployed through a web portal that automates the initial deployment, or to expand an existing system, making the process simple and quick. The 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 Public Cloud provides a choice of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for more flexibility, or native attached NVMe SSD drives for increased performance.
Some of the advantages of deploying applications with APEX Block Storage in AWS include:
This white paper explains the best practices and performance benefits of running SQL Server 2022 failover clusters and databases on Dell APEX Block Storage for Public Cloud.