AWS Storage Blog
Category: Database
How Turso built a transactional database using Amazon S3 Express One Zone
Turso is a transactional, cloud database platform built on SQLite, serving developers and enterprises that need lightweight, high-density databases at the edge and in the cloud. Because each database is just a file, a single Turso compute node can host millions of them with no cold start. Turso delivers these databases in a Bring Your […]
Replicate Amazon S3 bucket configurations across AWS Regions with AWS Step Functions
Many organizations operate thousands of Amazon S3 buckets in a single AWS Region, each with its own configuration accumulated over the years. Some were created manually in the AWS Management Console and others by scripts that are no longer actively maintained, provisioned by different business units with their own policies, lifecycle rules, encryption, and tags. […]
Implement single-exchange tokens for short-lived Amazon S3 presigned URLs with Terraform
Organizations across industries use signed URLs to grant temporary, credential-less access to private resources such as receipts, medical or financial records, legal files, or confidential reports. However, signed URLs can be reused by anyone until they expire, creating security risks if a URL is shared or inadvertently disclosed. This risk can be mitigated by vending […]
From hours to minutes: Rethinking Oracle database operations with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
When customers choose to run self-managed Oracle databases in the cloud, one of the fundamental decisions they make is where to store their data. Although many deployments use locally attached block storage, there’s a compelling alternative: running Oracle on a network file system such as Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. Shifting database storage from local disks […]
Building an open warehouse architecture: Supabase’s integration with Amazon S3 Tables
As applications scale, developers face a persistent challenge: analytical queries that slow down transactional databases, force them to copy data across multiple proprietary tools, and create disconnected data silos. For the 5 million developers building on Supabase, an open source Postgres development platform, this tension between operational and analytical workloads has become increasingly critical. The […]
Build intelligent ETL pipelines using AWS Model Context Protocol and Amazon Q
Data scientists and engineers spend hours writing complex data pipelines to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from various sources into their data lakes for data integration and creating unified data models to build business insights. The process involves understanding the source and target systems, discovering schemas, mapping source and target, writing and testing ETL […]
Optimizing recommendations and analytics using Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3
Today, consumers navigate thousands of products on e-commerce sites, hundreds of shows on streaming platforms, and countless options in digital marketplaces. This choice overload creates decision fatigue, yet consumers continue to demand more variety and make more purchases online. As a result, personalization has become essential—consumers reward brands that deliver relevant, tailored online experiences. However, […]
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 […]
Protect Amazon Aurora DSQL clusters using AWS Backup
In today’s data-driven world, organizations are migrating mission-critical databases to the cloud for better performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Amazon Aurora DSQL, a serverless distributed SQL database, is purpose-built for always available applications with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. As customers adopt Aurora DSQL, ensuring comprehensive data protection becomes critical to […]
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 […]





