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Amazon S3 Glacier Storage Classes

Analyze access patterns and use the most cost-effective Amazon S3 storage class

Businesses that use data lakes, machine learning (ML), and analytics need scalable data storage. However, not all stored data is accessed equally. Some portions of data may be accessed often, while whereas other portions of data are rarely accessed. Modern cloud storage allows users to move infrequently used, cold data to lower-cost storage classes. This […]

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How London Stock Exchange Group migrated 30 PB of market data using AWS DataSync

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has 30 PB of Tick History-PCAP data, which is ultra-high-quality global market data that is based on raw exchange data, timestamped to the nanosecond. An additional 60 TB is generated every day. LSEG sought to migrate their data from Wasabi cloud storage, LSEG was looking for a new solution to […]

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How Toyota Connected North America reduced storage costs by optimizing its growing data on Amazon S3

Toyota Connected North America, founded in 2016, focuses on developing and delivering advanced technology and data services for Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Toyota Connected’s mission is to make mobility a more accessible, exciting, and human-centric experience for everyone. To this end, Toyota Connected uses data connectivity to serve more than 8 million retail customers, hundreds […]

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Faster restores on Veeam using Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and S3 Batch Operations

Storing multiple copies of data is often an enterprise data protection best practice and a critical part of backup and recovery solutions. The ability to quickly recover or restore data – often from backup copies in cost-effective archive storage – is critical to minimizing potential downtime or operational disruptions in disaster recovery (DR) scenarios such […]

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Automating retrievals from the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes

Faced with increasing amounts of data and a tightening economic climate, enterprises are looking to save money on their storage costs by moving rarely needed data to archival storage options. The least costly options require your internal systems to support receiving data back in hours or days, often called asynchronous retrievals. With this time delay, […]

Amazon S3 Archive Storage Classes

Simplify querying your archive data in Amazon S3 with Amazon Athena

Today, customers increasingly choose to store data for longer because they recognize its future value potential. Storing data longer, coupled with exponential data growth, has led to customers placing a greater emphasis on storage cost optimization and using cost-effective storage classes. However, a modern data archiving strategy not only calls for optimizing storage costs, but […]

Amazon S3 Archive Storage Classes

Identify cold objects for archiving to Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes

Update (02/13/2024): Consider Amazon S3 Lifecycle transition fees that are charged based on the total number of objects being transitioned, the destination storage class (listed on the Amazon S3 pricing page), as well as the additional metadata charges applied. You can use the S3 pricing calculator to estimate the total upfront and monthly costs by […]

Amazon S3 Glacier Storage Classes

Reduce recovery time and optimize storage costs with faster restores from Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes and Commvault

Data is the lifeblood of any modern business. Organizations are storing more copies of their application data than ever before to recover from data loss, repair data corruption or ransomware damage, respond to compliance requests, and become more data driven. Storing more data at reduced cost enables businesses to extract more value and insights to […]

How Canva saves over $3 million annually in Amazon S3 costs

How Canva saves over $3 million annually in Amazon S3 costs

Canva is an online design tool that empowers users worldwide to design, edit, and publish anything they can dream up. Canva runs most of its production workloads on AWS, using several core services, including Amazon S3, Amazon ECS, Amazon RDS, and Amazon DynamoDB. Running on AWS has helped Canva move fast and keep up with […]

Amazon S3 Glacier Storage Classes

How to restore archived Amazon EC2 backup recovery points from the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes

This is the second post in a two-part series. In part one, we described a process to automatically archive Amazon EC2 backup recovery points from AWS Backup to an Amazon S3 bucket in one of the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes. In this post, we describe the process to restore an archived EC2 backup recovery point from […]