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How Pendulum achieves 6x faster processing and 40% cost reduction with Amazon S3 Tables

Pendulum is an AI-powered analytics platform that aggregates and analyzes real-time data from social media, news, and podcasts. Designed to help organizations stay ahead, it enables reputation monitoring, early crisis detection, and influencer activity tracking. Using machine learning (ML) enables Pendulum to surface key insights from multiple channels, providing a comprehensive view of the digital […]

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Bringing more to the table: How Amazon S3 Tables rapidly delivered new capabilities in the first 5 months

Amazon S3 redefined data storage when it launched as the first generally available AWS service in 2006 to deliver highly reliable, durable, secure, low-latency storage with virtually unlimited scale. While designed to deliver simple storage, S3 has proven to be built to handle the explosive growth of data we have seen in the last 19 […]

Amazon S3 Tables

Streamlining access to tabular datasets stored in Amazon S3 Tables with DuckDB

As businesses continue to rely on data-driven decision-making, there’s an increasing demand for tools that streamline and accelerate the process of data analysis. Efficiency and simplicity in application architecture can serve as a competitive edge when driving high-stakes decisions. Developers are seeking lightweight, flexible tools that seamlessly integrate with their existing application stack, specifically solutions […]

Amazon S3 Tables

Seamless streaming to Amazon S3 Tables with StreamNative Ursa Engine

Organizations are modernizing data platforms to use generative AI by centralizing data from various sources and streaming real-time data into data lakes. A strong data foundation, such as scalable storage, reliable ingestion pipelines, and interoperable formats, is critical for businesses to discover, explore, and consume data. As organizations modernize their platforms, they often turn to […]

Amazon S3 Tables

Connect Snowflake to S3 Tables using the SageMaker Lakehouse Iceberg REST endpoint

Organizations today seek data analytics solutions that provide maximum flexibility and accessibility. Customers need their data to be readily available using their preferred query engines, and break down barriers across different computing environments. At the same time, they want a single copy of data to be used across these solutions, to track lineage, be cost […]

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Build a data lake for streaming data with Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon Data Firehose

Businesses are increasingly adopting real-time data processing to stay ahead of user expectations and market changes. Industries such as retail, finance, manufacturing, and smart cities are using streaming data for everything from optimizing supply chains to detecting fraud and improving urban planning. The ability to use data as it is generated has become a critical […]

Amazon S3 Tables

Access data in Amazon S3 Tables using PyIceberg through the AWS Glue Iceberg REST endpoint

Modern data lakes integrate with multiple engines to meet a wide range of analytics needs, from SQL querying to stream processing. A key enabler of this approach is the adoption of Apache Iceberg as the open table format for building transactional data lakes. However, as the Iceberg ecosystem expands, the growing variety of engines and languages has […]

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Analyzing Amazon S3 Metadata with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

UPDATE (1/27/2025): Amazon S3 Metadata is generally available. 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 you find the right datasets at the right time? By implementing a robust metadata management strategy, you can answer these […]

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How Delhivery migrated 500 TB of data across AWS Regions using Amazon S3 Replication

Delhivery is one of the largest third-party logistics providers in India. It fulfills millions of packages every day, servicing over 18,000 pin codes in India and powered by more than 20 automated sort centers, 90 warehouses, with over 2800 delivery centers. Data is at the core of the Delhivery’s business. In anticipating of potential regulatory […]

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Derive insights from AWS DataSync task reports using AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight

Update (10/30/2024): On October 30, 2024, AWS DataSync launched Enhanced mode tasks, prompting updates to this blog. Updates include a new step in the “Step 2: Populate Glue catalog with task reports data using a Glue crawler” section and detailed information on the new capabilities in “Updated steps for working with task reports of new […]