AWS News Blog
Category: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Amazon S3 Update: New Storage Class and General Availability of S3 Select
I’ve got two big pieces of news for anyone who stores and retrieves data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): New S3 One Zone-IA Storage Class – This new storage class is 20% less expensive than the existing Standard-IA storage class. It is designed to be used to store data that does not need […]
The Floodgates Are Open – Increased Network Bandwidth for EC2 Instances
I hope that you have configured your AMIs and your current-generation EC2 instances to use the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) that I told you about back in mid-2016. The ENA gives you high throughput and low latency, while minimizing the load on the host processor. It is designed to work well in the presence of […]
S3 Select and Glacier Select – Retrieving Subsets of Objects
Update July 25, 2024 — Use Amazon Athena, S3 Object Lambda, or client-side filtering to optimize querying your data in Amazon S3. Learn more. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) stores data for millions of applications used by market leaders in every industry. Many of these customers also use Amazon Glacier for secure, durable, and […]
AWS Config Update – New Managed Rules to Secure S3 Buckets
AWS Config captures the state of your AWS resources and the relationships between them. Among other features, it allows you to select a resource and then view a timeline of configuration changes that affect the resource (read Track AWS Resource Relationships With AWS Config to learn more). AWS Config rules extends Config with a powerful […]
New – S3 Sync capability for EC2 Systems Manager: Query & Visualize Instance Software Inventory
It is now essential, with the fast paced lives we all seem to lead, to find tools to make it easier to manage our time, our home, and our work. With the pace of technology, the need for technologists to find management tools to easily manage their systems is just as important. With the introduction […]
Hightail — Empowering Creative Collaboration in the Cloud
Hightail – formerly YouSendIt – streamlines how creative work is reviewed, improved, and approved by helping more than 50 million professionals around the world get great content in front of their audiences faster. Since its debut in 2004 as a file sharing company, Hightail shifted its strategic direction to focus on delivering value-added creative collaboration […]
AWS Knowledge Center Video: Preparing to Send a Snowball Back to AWS
Do you know about the AWS Support Knowledge Center? It contains answers to some of the most frequently asked questions and other requests asked of our support team. Many of the answers even include a short video that serves to illustrate the process or to provide additional info on the topic. For example, I recently […]
File Interface to AWS Storage Gateway
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. I should probably have a blog category for “catching up from AWS re:Invent!” Last November we made a really important addition to the AWS Storage Gateway that I was too busy to research and write about at the time. As […]


