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Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS
The world’s most scalable cloud block storage1
Challenges with mission critical applications in the public cloudSIMPLICITY•

Automated deployment: Deploy andconfigure block storage on AWS withsimplicity and ease•

Streamlined management: Utilize
consistent and familiar tools to manage
storage across multicloud environments•

Efficient consolidation: Unify disparate
cloud resources and workloads through aconsistent multicloud storage experience

AGILITY•

Extreme versatility: Optimize a varietyof workloads such as databases,
analytics, Dev/Test, virtualization andcontainers•

Seamless data mobility: Movedata efficiently between multicloudenvironments to take advantage of avariety of AWS services•

Linear scalability: Accommodate
demanding and unpredictable workloads
with high performance and low latency

CONTROL•

Advanced data services: Meet SLAs
with enterprise-class features such asthin provisioning, snapshots and backup/restore•

Unparalleled resiliency: Efficiently place
data across multiple availability zones
without unnecessary replication or datacopies•

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Organizations that select public cloud deployments as part of their multicloud strategy
seek to increase their agility, accelerate application deployment time and improve overall
time-to-value. However, certain mission critical workloads have not been consideredviable candidates for running in the public cloud due to performance, scale andresiliency limitations. Add to that inconsistent throughout, capacity charges associatedwith meeting application requirements, and migrating workloads – and extending into thepublic cloud becomes even more challenging. Additionally, its often difficult to monitor
performance and capacity utilization across public cloud-based storage resources.
Enterprise-class block storage for AWS
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS enables you to run diverse workloads in the public
cloud without these limitations and risks. Flexible deployment options and enterprisegrade resiliency offers a simplified public cloud experience powered by innovative storage
solutions from Dell Technologies that the industry has come to know and trust.

Designed for 99.9999% availability2With Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS, you get the best of both worlds with Dell’senterprise-class storage performance, scalability and resiliency combined with theeconomics, compute and agility provided by the public cloud.
Extreme performance and scalability
The scale-out software architecture for Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS enables
exceptionally high performance by aggregating storage across multiple instances in acluster. This allows you to independently scale compute up to 2048 instances or storage
up to 512 instances within a single cluster.
In fact, Dell APEX Storage Block for AWS surpasses the limits of native cloud-basedstorage volumes while delivering extremely large IOPs with low latency allowing you torun a wide range of block-based workloads – even mission critical use cases that require
high performance.

APEX Block Storage for AWS delivers
over 100x better performance thannative cloud block storage3

Simplified deployment, management and mobility
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS can be deployed utilizing Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes for most workloads or on EC2
Instance Store for more performance-intensive use cases. Configuration and deployment only require four easy steps thanks to Dell
APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage, which optimizes the instance types needed to support the capacity, performance and resiliency
requirements of workloads.
Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage further simplifies multicloud storage management complexity by breaking down siloed
experiences with centralized management of Dell storage endpoints across multiple public clouds, all from within the Dell APEX
Console. This enables ITOps and storage admins to securely deploy, configure, manage and monitor Dell storage in public clouds.
Data mobility is efficient and seamless between on-premises and AWS environments, as well as between different regions in the public
cloud. By leveraging asynchronous replication and snapshots for data protection and mobility, this offer provides fast and efficient datatransfer, along with backup copies for disaster recovery, without lock-in.

Up to 87% cost savings compared to native public cloud storage4
Multi-AZ and enterprise data services
Dell APEX Data Block Storage for AWS has the unique ability to spread data across multiple available zones, ensuring data accesswithout requiring extra copies of data or replication across AZs. By using the native fault sets feature, data is distributed across three ormore availability zones to offer additional protection against AZ failure.
Enterprise-class features such as thin provisioning, snapshots, replication, volume migration and backup/restore are also available with
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS. With its extreme performance and scalability -- and proven enterprise data services -- this solution iswell suited to support the most challenging workloads including large databases, analytics, Dev/Test, virtualization and containers.
Enterprise-level support with Dell ProSupport Infrastructure SuiteDell ProSupport Infrastructure Suite delivers enterprise-level support for managing storage solutions from the datacenter, to the edge,
to the cloud. ProSupport provides comprehensive 24x7 proactive support and ProSupport Plus delivers mission critical support withpriority access to remote senior support engineers and an assigned Service Account Manager. Maximize workload availability andincrease IT staff productivity with ProSupport Infrastructure Suite.
Summary
With Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS, you can modernize and streamline your block storage experience in the public cloud, quickly
adapt to unexpected changes in workload requirements and maintain peace of mind with reliable enterprise-class data services. With
all the proven capabilities of enterprise on-premises block storage now available in the public cloud, you can run any block-based
workload in the cloud with confidence.

Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS is the industry’s most resilientand flexible cloud storage offering1

Learn more about Dell APEXBlock Storage for Public Cloud

Based on Dell analysis of storage software deployable on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, May 2023. CLM-007736 and CLM-007738.
Performance claims based on internal Dell testing, October 2023.
Based on Dell analysis comparing maximum IOPS published results, September 2023. APEX Block Storage for AWS maximum
performance using a single AWS EC2 instance store (i3en.12xlarge), NVME attached storage, running 4KB IO size, 100% random read perSDS and assumes public cloud volumes consolidate performance of entire storage pool in a single volume. Actual results may vary.
4Based on a Silverton Consulting white paper, sponsored by Dell Technologies, “Conceptual TCO: Dell APEX Block Storage for PublicCloud,” October 2023. Systems were configured to support IOPS performance of 7,740 KIOPS. The Dell solution assumes 4:1 thinprovisioning vs thick provisioning for AWS EBS. Actual costs will vary depending on the thing provisioning factor used, region, data change/
snapshot rates, capacity, type of storage and instances used, and other factors.
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