Nasuni, a provider of hybrid cloud storage solutions, has announced the general availability of Nasuni Edge for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). This cloud-native, distributed solution would enable businesses to quickly access and deliver data while guaranteeing low-latency access, which is quite essential for edge workloads, such as cloud-based AI/ML applications. All of this is possible on a single, cohesive platform.
AWS’s object storage solution, Amazon S3, would provide the highest performance, security, availability of data, and scalability. Customers may operate S3-compatible storage that supports certain S3 APIs on AWS Outposts, AWS Local Zones, and their on-premises environments using Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3, which supports workloads up to petabytes in size.
Nasuni’s cloud-native architecture is specifically engineered to enhance efficiency and expedite business procedures. In multiple sectors, such as manufacturing, real estate, engineering, construction, and healthcare, where massive amounts of data need to be processed and ingested into Amazon S3 fast due to distant facilities with restricted connectivity, instantaneous file access can be critical. Additionally, clients are seeking a more integrated platform for the access and security of both file and object data, according to Nasuni, allowing them to handle both small and large-scale projects with workloads focused on the cloud and on-premises with a single solution.
“Nasuni has been a long-time AWS partner, and this latest collaboration delivers the simplest solution for modernizing an enterprise’s existing file infrastructure. With Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3, enterprises can support legacy workloads and take advantage of modern Amazon S3-based applications,” said David Grant, President at Nasuni. “Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 allows an organization to make unstructured data easily available to cloud-based AI services.”
Low Latency for AWS Local Zones, AWS Outposts
Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 would enhance data access in the following ways:
- Local performance at the edge – Now, users may install Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 in self-managed on-premises systems, AWS Local Zones, AWS Outposts, or wherever high performance and low latency are needed. Application owners and users may anticipate LAN-like performance with local caching using Nasuni.
- Multi-protocol read/write scenarios – Other protocols beyond Amazon S3 would often be needed for data access, most commonly Server Message Block (SMB) or Network File System (NFS). Nasuni’s multi-protocol flexibility makes a variety of application access possible.
- Support for more file metadata – Nasuni supports an enhanced number of tags, the amount of characters in tags, and the size of file metadata, extending file management situations where categorization and compliance are critical.
“Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 provides us with the capability to seamlessly interact with Nasuni,” said Alex Serban, Senior Manager of Site Reliability and Operations at Electronic Arts. “This approach to engaging with Nasuni not only enhances our operational efficiency, but also establishes a standardized process. The potential of Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 becomes evident in its ability to boost performance, speeding software build distribution to teams around the globe. This improvement is instrumental in accelerating the delivery of games to the global market.”
