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Accelerating Amazon S3 Batch Operations at scale with on-demand manifest generation

Modern enterprises routinely manage billions of objects across their cloud storage environments, needing efficient bulk operations for disaster recovery, compliance management, data transfer, and cost optimization. Performing these operations manually or through custom scripts becomes impractical at scale, often creating operational bottlenecks when time-sensitive actions are necessary. Organizations frequently need to identify and process specific […]

Boost testing confidence with automated Amazon RDS data replication from production to non-production environment

Automated testing in a pre-production environment is crucial for verifying the reliability and stability of software releases in any organization. However, for many applications, writing and executing these tests necessitates the use of data from production system. This production data is valuable for testing and development because it represents real-world scenarios, usage patterns, and edge […]

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KKCompany saves 93% on data storage by migrating music streaming services to AWS

KKCompany Technologies (KKCompany) is an AI multimedia technology group based in Taipei, with offices across Asia. Its flagship music streaming platform, KKBOX, serves over 12 million users worldwide. As its user base and music catalog rapidly grew, KKCompany faced significant challenges with its on-premises storage infrastructure. These included costly hardware scaling, constrained rack space, and […]

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University of California Irvine backs up petabytes of research data to AWS

Editor’s note: AWS is not responsible for UCI’s public GitHub repo linked in this post, which has been provided so that interested parties can explore the solution described in this post in more detail. The University of California, Irvine (UCI) is a public land-grant research university with troves of research data stored on servers in […]

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Automating paper-to-electronic healthcare claims processing with AWS

Health plans process billions of claims electronically each year. Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) estimates that approximately 10% of claims still arrive as paper documents, accounting for hundreds of millions of paper submissions annually in the U.S. These paper claims create processing bottlenecks and consume a disproportionate share of operational costs and resources, with […]

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Using Amazon S3 Express One Zone as a caching layer for S3 Standard

Data caching is a critical strategy for optimizing application performance in today’s data-intensive environments. By storing frequently accessed information in high-speed storage locations, organizations can dramatically reduce access times, optimize the use of compute resources, and improve overall system responsiveness. Effective caching strategies become particularly essential for workloads that require consistent low latency, such as […]

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How Pendulum achieves 6x faster processing and 40% cost reduction with Amazon S3 Tables

Pendulum is an AI-powered analytics platform that aggregates and analyzes real-time data from social media, news, and podcasts. Designed to help organizations stay ahead, it enables reputation monitoring, early crisis detection, and influencer activity tracking. Using machine learning (ML) enables Pendulum to surface key insights from multiple channels, providing a comprehensive view of the digital […]

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How FICO modernizes file transfers with ETL automation using AWS Transfer Family

FICO powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 80 countries do everything from protecting four billion payment cards from fraud, to improving financial inclusion, and increasing supply chain resiliency. As a global leader in credit scoring and analytics, FICO processes massive volumes of sensitive […]

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How Bridgewater maintains data consistency across Regions using Amazon S3 Replication

Bridgewater Associates is a global macro investment manager, with a core mission of understanding how the world’s markets and economies work by analyzing the drivers of markets and turning that understanding into high-quality portfolios and investment advice for their clients. The data that drives this economic research is stored in Bridgewater’s data lake, built on […]

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Event-driven framework to integrate AWS Backup service with CSPM tools

Many organizations use third-party Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools (for example Wiz.io) to continuously detect and remediate misconfiguration from build time to runtime across hybrid clouds such as AWS. CSPM tools often use AWS resource tags to enhance their security and compliance monitoring capabilities. Tags are key-value pairs that you can assign to AWS resources […]