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Real-time fleet tracking using AWS IoT Core, Amazon S3 Tables, and Amazon Quick Sight
The fast pace of the logistics industry necessitates real-time vehicle fleet tracking for maintaining a competitive edge and meeting customer expectations. Traditional methods often provide delayed or incomplete information, leading to inefficiencies and missed opportunities. The demand for accurate, up-to-the-minute data on vehicle locations, driver behavior, and route performance has never been higher. Companies need […]
Improve resilience of low latency applications with Amazon EBS and AWS FIS
Organizations running mission-critical applications and databases face challenges to ensure their systems can withstand unexpected storage performance degradation. Storage latency issues can emerge unpredictably in production environments and impact the business. Although unit, integration, and regression testing ensure that systems work under normal conditions, they don’t cover unexpected failures that result in expensive outages. This […]
Scan backups for malware with Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup
Data loss events from malware attacks can compromise your backups, putting your recovery strategy at risk. Organizations rely on backups as a critical defense against data loss, but these same backups can inadvertently preserve malware that has infiltrated production systems without being detected and removed. When malicious events occur, customers face a significant challenge: determining […]
Enhance your SMB file transfer security with Kerberos and AWS DataSync
Businesses replicate data from on-premises file shares to the cloud to power analytics processes, enable migrations, or free up archival storage. When authenticating to Windows Server Message Block (SMB) file shares, the NTLM protocol has been ubiquitous for decades. However, Microsoft announced its deprecation in 2024. Whether your business operates in a highly regulated industry […]
Implementing Multi-party approval workflows for AWS Backup logically air-gapped vaults
Enterprises today face significant challenges securing backup data during incidents. When backup systems share authentication with production environments, compromised credentials can block access to both environments, leaving enterprises vulnerable during recovery. Enterprises with interconnected environments face heightened risk, where single-approval frameworks provide inadequate protection. The integration of the Multi-party approval capability with AWS Backup provides […]
Cross-Region disaster recovery using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
As businesses evolve, critical applications must remain highly available whether running on traditional virtualized infrastructure or more modern cloud- based environments. These workloads need to be resilient against ransomware attacks, data corruption, infrastructure failures, and regional impairments. Organizations must focus on defining the appropriate recovery objectives, while also minimizing costs. However, implementing disaster recovery can […]
Using AWS Backup and Oracle Fast Recovery Area on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for backup/restore of Oracle databases on Amazon EC2
As data grows exponentially, organizations running Oracle databases prioritize minimizing backup time and quicker recovery times in the event of disasters. Oracle databases on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) often configure an Oracle Fast Recovery Area (FRA) to fulfil data protection, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements. The FRA is a centralized, Oracle-managed storage location that streamlines […]
Build a managed Apache Iceberg data lake using Starburst and Amazon S3 Tables
Managing large-scale data analytics across diverse data sources has long been a challenge for enterprises. Data teams often struggle with complex data lake configurations, performance bottlenecks, and the need to maintain consistent data governance while enabling broad access to analytics capabilities. Today, Starburst announces a powerful solution to these challenges by extending their Apache Iceberg […]
Analyzing Amazon S3 Metadata with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight
UPDATE (1/27/2025): Amazon S3 Metadata is generally available. UPDATE (7/15/2025): Amazon S3 Metadata releases live inventory tables. This blog post has been edited to reflect the current process. Object storage provides virtually unlimited scalability, but managing billions, or even trillions, of objects can pose significant challenges. How do you know what data you have? How can […]
Enhance PostgreSQL resiliency and recoverability using Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
Organizations today often depend on mission-critical database workloads. When these databases become unavailable, it can significantly impact revenue and erode user trust. To mitigate this risk, these critical environments need the fastest possible recovery capabilities if there is a failure. This means having the lowest recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). Achieving […]


