AWS Storage Blog
Category: Compute
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 […]
How to consume tabular data from Amazon S3 Tables for insights and business reporting
When was the last time you found yourself trying to look at rows and rows of data in a spreadsheet struggling to interpret and draw conclusions? Many analysts and engineers experience the same challenge every day. Whether it’s analyzing sales trends, monitoring operational metrics, or understanding customer behavior, the challenge lies not just in interpreting […]
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 […]
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 […]
Expedite VMware migration to Amazon EC2 and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP using the BlueXP workload factory migration advisor
Over the past two decades, virtualization, specifically VMware was the key technology trend that has helped organizations reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, and simplify infrastructure management. However, the technology landscape is rapidly evolving. Cloud service providers now offer advanced hypervisor capabilities that match or exceed traditional on-premises virtualization solutions, while providing seamless integration with a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Enhancing resource-level permissions for copying Amazon EBS snapshots
Businesses use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots to capture point-in-time copies of application data volumes that can serve as baseline standards when creating new volumes. With snapshot copy, users are enabled to launch application workloads in different AWS Regions or meet data protection and disaster recovery requirements. Security and regulatory compliance remain top […]
Migrating files to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server using Robocopy
When migrating file shares to AWS, users need a direct and efficient solution for transferring their data. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server, and delivers a wide range of data access, data management, and administrative capabilities. There are a few different choices for migration. AWS DataSync […]
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 […]