Dell Technologies' PowerFlex storage-as-a-service is now available on Amazon Web Services' (AWS) public cloud in a move to provide consistent operational experiences across modern enterprises' hybrid and multicloud environments.

The move comes out of Project Alpine announced at the beginning of the year, which aspires to take Dell's file, block, and object storage software to all the major clouds. According to the company, combining Dell's storage services with native public cloud services will create a consistent and streamlined experience that allows for data mobility without the need for retraining employees or refactoring applications.

The multi-cloud-focused service builds upon Dell's efforts with Apex and its other as-a-service and cloud offerings. Its availability in AWS leads to an easily digestible value proposition – the high performance and massive scalability customers are used to within their on-premises environments is now transferable to AWS' cloud infrastructure.

In a similar vein to network-as-a-service (NaaS) and SD-WAN, Dell's PowerFlex in AWS offers enterprise customers a storage service that removes the need for enterprises to purchase, own, or maintain physical infrastructure or hardware.

Significant use cases for PowerFlex in AWS include databases, application, test/dev, backup, disaster recovery, and the consolidation of multiple workloads onto one storage platform.

It's the combination of AWS services and PowerFlex that makes the service “really shine,” according to Dell. The vendor cited the service's scale and durability and noted the ability to add linear scale-out performance to its existing scale-out capabilities, which increases resilience.

Dell also touted PowerFlex's multi-availability zones (AZ) durability, which it claims isn't available in any other cloud block offering. Customers can use the deployment wizard to choose how to spread out their PowerFlex deployments among multiple AZs in the same region. And in the rare case of a complete AZ failure, PowerFlex promises no data storage loss. Master data managements are also spread out with PowerFlex to reduce the potential of a total management stack failure, according to the company.