Geert Jansen and Jacob Strauss, Amazon Web Services
This tutorial is targeted towards administrators and developers that would like to understand the latest developments in cloud-based managed file services. We'll start off with an overview of available offerings, we'll cover intended use cases, the pros and cons of each of the offerings, and we'll make a comparison with self-managed offerings. We'll also talk about how what tools are available to move on-premises file storage solutions to the cloud.
Geert Jansen, Amazon Web Services
Geert Jansen is a Senior Product Manager at Amazon Web Services where he works on Amazon EFS. He was Product Owner for Red Hat CloudForms and also worked at Ravello Systems and Royal Dutch Shell. He received an M.Sc. in Applied Physics from the Eindhoven University of Technology.
Jacob Strauss, Amazon Web Services
Jacob Strauss is a Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services, currently working on the Amazon Elastic File System. He has been at AWS since 2013 building distributed systems under the guise of storage services, and growing Amazon's Boston-area engineering teams. He received PhD and undergraduate degrees in computer science from MIT.
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author = {Geert Jansen and Jacob Strauss},
title = {Managed File Services in the Cloud: What to Use, Where, and Why?},
year = {2019},
address = {Boston, MA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = feb
}