Category: Analytics

Update (10/30/2024): On October 30, 2024, AWS DataSync launched Enhanced mode tasks, prompting updates to this blog. Updates include a new step in the “Step 2: Populate Glue catalog with task reports data using a Glue crawler” section and detailed information on the new capabilities in “Updated steps for working with task reports of new […]

Point-in-time ‘snapshots’ enable administrators, developers, testers, and end users to quickly access a storage volume or share how it was at an earlier point-in-time. They are a longstanding approach to data protection and recovery, tracking changes within a storage system to reduce both Recovery Point Objective (RTO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). However, traditional snapshots […]

Vivian Health connects travel nurses with job opportunities across the country. To do that, the platform has innovated not just the job search itself, but also the tooling used by recruiters and hiring managers to get qualified candidates matched to the right job and placed as quickly and as seamlessly as possible. However, the process […]

Businesses store large volumes of data in their data lakes and rely on this data to extract insights and make important business decisions. However, business stakeholders sometimes lack the technical skills required to run complex queries against their data lakes. Instead, they rely on data scientists or analysts to build reports and dashboards or to […]

Organizations meet business and regulatory requirements by having visibility and control over backup environments. You want a streamlined solution to continuously monitor, detect, and track policy drifts across your backup deployments at scale. This need is driven by the growing complexity of AWS environments, the proliferation of data across diverse AWS services and regions, and […]

Siemens is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smart buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation and advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose, adding real value for its customers. Siemens technology is everywhere, supporting the critical infrastructure and vital industries […]

Protecting against accidental or malicious deletion is a key element of data protection. Immutability protects data in-place, preventing unintended changes or deletions. However, sometimes it isn’t clear for how long data should be made immutable. Users in this situation are looking for a solution that maintains short-term immutability, indefinitely. They want to make sure their […]

Cost is top of mind for many enterprises, and building awareness of different cost contributors is the first step toward managing costs and improving efficiency. Costs for transferring data may segregate into common but low cost and less frequent but higher cost groups. Data about these two groups is mixed together, and separating them enables […]

When managing a large volume of data in a storage system, it is common for data duplication to happen. Data duplication in data management refers to the presence of multiple copies of the same data within your system, leading to additional storage usage as well as extra overhead when handling multiple copies of the same […]

Administrators may need to monitor and audit actions, like uploads, updates, and deletes, taken on files and other data to comply with regulations or company policies. A scalable and reliable method of tracking and saving actions taken on files can reduce manual work and operational overhead while helping to ensure compliance. An event-based fanout architectures […]