Amazon Web Services Inc. is looking to simplify its block storage offerings.
The company announced the general availability of Amazon EBC io2 Block Express volumes today, bringing storage area network capabilities to its cloud for the first time.
Amazon EBS io2 Block Express was first previewed at re:Invent 2020 and is part of a bigger drive by the cloud company to make mission-critical storage and database migration to the cloud easier. AWS Vice President of Storage Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec explained that for decades, enterprises that want to get the highest storage performance for throughput-intensive workloads have been forced to use on-premises SAN. But the problem with that is it’s complicated and difficult to manage.