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S3 on Outposts

Achieving consistent time to first byte latencies with Amazon S3 on Outposts

With the rise in data sovereignty and privacy regulations, organizations are seeking flexible solutions that balance compliance with data sovereignty regulations and the agility of the cloud. For example, to comply with data sovereignty regulations, users in the financial and healthcare industries need to deploy applications on premises and store data locally. To provide the […]

Effectively track AWS data transfer costs for cross-region Amazon EBS Snapshot Copy

To safeguard data against natural disasters and ransomware attacks, many AWS users opt to protect their data by creating snapshots and replicating them to different AWS Regions. It is crucial for these users to monitor snapshots and associated data transfers for inter-regional costs, allowing them to provide accurate chargebacks to both internal and external stakeholders. […]

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Streamline data management at scale by automating the creation of Amazon S3 Batch Operations jobs

Over time, Enterprises may need to undertake operations or make modifications to their data as part of general data management, to address changing business needs, or to comply with evolving data-management regulations and best practices. As datasets being generated, stored, and analyzed continue to grow exponentially, the need for simplified, scalable, and reproduceable data management […]

How BMW Group optimizes software builds using AWS VM Import/Export and Amazon EBS Snapshot Copy

The BMW Group (BMW) is a global manufacturer of premium automobiles and motorcycles, covering the brands BMW, BMW Motorrad, MINI, and Rolls-Royce. Since 2022, BMW has started using AWS to scale its capacity to handle vast increases in needed compute and storage capacity to build and test automated driving features, such as adaptive cruise control, […]

Marqeta supercharges MySQL workloads using Amazon EBS io2 Block Express

Given the ubiquity of digital payments, cutting-edge fintech solutions hinge on seamless and highly available real-time transaction processing. Invariably, this needs the support of a performant, reliable, and secure datastore. And after considering technical requirements, fintech companies know that regulatory and compliance auditing never takes a back seat. Enterprise AWS customer Marqeta needed all of […]

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Dialog Axiata saves significantly on storage using Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering and S3 Storage Lens

The telecommunications industry has undergone major technological changes in recent years, and the extensive data generated by telecom operations demands strategic handling. According to a McKinsey survey, over 50% of telecom companies said they were moving more assets to the cloud, including many business-critical applications such as business support systems (BSS). Telecom companies must prioritize […]

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How Visual Layer builds high quality datasets on Amazon S3

Companies from different industries use data to help their Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems make intelligent decisions. For ML systems to work well, it is crucial to make sure that the massive datasets used for training ML models are of the highest quality, minimizing noise that can contribute to less-than-optimal performance. Processing […]

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Managing duplicate objects in Amazon S3

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 […]

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Automatic monitoring of actions taken on objects in Amazon S3

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 […]

Amazon S3 Express One Zone delivers cost and performance gains for ChaosSearch customers

ChaosSearch is an Amazon S3-native database built on a serverless, stateless compute architecture within AWS that delivers live search, SQL, and Generative AI analytics. At ChaosSearch, the speed and performance of our architecture is important to us and our customers because time to results is the difference between success and failure, and we rely on […]