Moving heavy workloads to the cloud, as essential as it is in today’s digital economy, is a tough process. Technical debt and risk of error make migrating critical workloads a potential headache and stressor for a lot of companies seeking to join the digital revolution.

With Amazon Elastic Box Storage and its snapshots feature, capable of creating incremental backups, Amazon lessens the load of cloud migration and offers safe storage to those moving their data to the cloud, according to Cami Tavares (pictured, right), senior manager of Amazon EBS at Amazon Web Services Inc., who believes using SAN in the cloud is the future of cloud storage, offering high-performance and agility to customers to move them to the cloud and thus the market faster.

“When we look at the EBS portfolio and the evolution over the years, you can see that it was driven by customer need, and we have different volume types that have very specific performance characteristics that are built to meet these unique needs of customer workloads,” Tavares said. “Every business is a data business, and block storage is a foundational part of that.”

Tavares and Ashish Palekar (pictured, left), general manager of EBS snapshots at AWS, spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the AWS Storage Day event. They discussed Amazon EBS, EBS snapshots, the announcement of io2 Block Express and more. (* Disclosure below.)

Speedier migration

AWS made a few announcements that support SAN in the cloud. One of these announcements is io2 Block Express, a modular storage system offering four times the input/output operations per second.

“It’s a complete ground app, the invention of our storage product offering, and gives customers the same availability, durability and performance characteristics that they’re used to in their on-premises,” Palekar explained.

With the sub-millisecond latency, performance and capacity from io2, customers can expect an easier and more efficient migration to the cloud.

Speed is one of the biggest motivators, according to customer feedback, for businesses moving to the cloud. SAN in the cloud specifically addresses this with its increased speed, with enterprises shelling over $22 million in 2021 in SANs, according to Tavares.

“It’s transformational for businesses to be able to change the customer experience for their customers and innovate at a much faster pace,” Tavares said. “With the block express product, you get to do that much faster. You can go from an idea to an implementation orders of magnitude faster.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the AWS Storage Day event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the AWS Storage Day. Neither Amazon Web Services Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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