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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 Some were created manually in the AWS Management Console and others by scripts that are no longer actively maintained, provisioned by different business units with their own policies, lifecycle rules, encryption, and tags. […]

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Query Amazon S3 access logs instantly with CloudWatch and S3 Tables

Knowing who accessed your data, when, and how is the foundation for security investigations, compliance audits, cost attribution, and performance troubleshooting. Detailed access logs capture every request: who made it, which resource was accessed, and what response was returned. In practice, though, they arrive as semi-structured records spread across different locations. Turning them into actionable […]

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Gain workload-specific storage insights with Amazon S3 Storage Lens groups

As industries generate and store growing volumes of data, gaining meaningful insights into storage usage becomes increasingly complex. You need to understand your data growth patterns and drivers while optimizing storage investments across different business units and workloads. However, obtaining the necessary visibility by data categories, departments, or applications remains operationally difficult, limiting the ability […]

Migrating SAS grid to the cloud: How Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering delivers low cost, high performance, storage

For nearly two decades, organizations across healthcare, drug discovery, and financial services have relied on SAS Grid to power their most critical analytics workloads. SAS Grid (formally known as SAS Grid Manager) is an enterprise software platform developed by SAS Institute that distributes and manages large-scale analytical workloads across a cluster of servers. It acts […]

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How Tavily reduced AI search caching costs by 95% with Amazon S3 Express One Zone

Tavily is an AI infrastructure company building the web access layer for agents and large language models (LLMs). The company provides developer-friendly APIs that enable real-time, structured retrieval from the web. Their mission is to make information instantly accessible for intelligent systems, and they’re trusted by thousands of leading research, commercial AI teams, and enterprises […]

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Bridge legacy and modern applications with Amazon S3 Access Points for Amazon FSx

Organizations rely on file storage accessed from traditional, file-based, applications while simultaneously wanting to build modern, cloud-native applications and services that access the same underlying data. Consequently, many cloud-native apps are built to work with Amazon S3. Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced a new capability, S3 Access Points for Amazon FSx which solves challenges […]

Optimize agent tool selection using Amazon S3 Vectors and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

State-of-the-art AI agents rely on external tools to perform actions on their behalf. A tool is a function with a clear description, defined inputs, and outputs that extend the capabilities of a large language model (LLM). As toolkits expand, selecting the right tool for each task requires effective mechanisms, among which semantic search enables agents […]

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Improve application resiliency with larger and faster Amazon EBS gp3 volumes

Maintaining resiliency and operational clarity while keeping costs low is one of the key things our customers have to balance for their high-performance applications. As customers experience natural growth in capacity and performance needs, at some point they may hit the limits of the existing solutions and have to rethink their architecture. They can do […]

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Applying Amazon S3 Object Lock at scale for petabytes of existing data

Organizations with petabytes of data in the cloud need a way to apply immutable storage protections to data that’s already been stored—whether for regulatory compliance or cyber resilience. Although you can enable write-once-read-many (WORM) controls for newly created storage, applying these protections to existing enterprise data at scale requires a systematic approach. Regulated industries have […]

AWS Backup 2025 year in review: advancing recovery resilience

As customers deployed increasingly diverse cloud workloads and confronted more sophisticated cyber threats, they needed data protection solutions that could scale across their AWS estate while guaranteeing recovery even in worst-case scenarios. This dual challenge shaped our focus in 2025 for AWS Backup: expanding the service’s reach across the AWS ecosystem while deepening our commitment […]