Amazon Web Services acquires storage start-up E8
With an aim to meet the demand of high-performance storage with flash in AWS, to complement the efforts, the E8 Storage brings it’s D-24 appliances that pack 24 NVMe SSDs in 2U, plus software-defined storage software for reference hardware with major server vendors, which has founded in 2014. Amazon has acquired E8 Storage, an Israeli startup and deploy its rack-scale flash storage in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud to brings out 'software-defined DSSD' NVMe array.
Amazon has acquired some assets and employees of E8 Storage, a small start-up that built data center data storage hardware. All the employees have received job offers from Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud unit. The Israeli media outlet Globes reported on the deal earlier to the AWS’ strategy to design custom infrastructure to meet its own needs, and acquisitions have contributed to that effort.
The USP of E8, that specializes in hardware that uses flash storage for fast performance. The E8 website boasts that the company’s hardware products “provide up to 10 times the performance of other all-flash-arrays, with consistently strong performance and low latency.”
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