AWS Storage Blog
Tag: Amazon Quicksight
Streamline and automate compliance monitoring and reporting with AWS Backup Audit Manager
Organizations meet business and regulatory requirements by having visibility and control over backup environments. You want a streamlined solution to continuously monitor, detect, and track policy drifts across your backup deployments at scale. This need is driven by the growing complexity of AWS environments, the proliferation of data across diverse AWS services and regions, and […]
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 […]
Derive insights from AWS DataSync task reports using AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight
Update (9/22/2023): Step 6b updated to automatically detect and update the Amazon Athena table schema when crawler detects large data transfer values reported in bytes that would consume the table’s maximum integer value while storing data. As customers scale their migration of large datasets with millions of files across multiple data transfers, they are faced […]
Migrate on-premises data to AWS for insightful visualizations
When migrating data from on premises, customers seek a data store that is scalable, durable, and cost effective. Equally as important, BI must support modern, interactive, and fast dashboards that can scale to tens of thousands of users seamlessly while providing the ability to create meaningful data visualizations for analysis. Visualization of on-premises business analytics […]
Disaster recovery insights with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery Factory
IT disasters can not only disrupt your business, but also cause data loss, impact your revenue, and damage your reputation. CloudEndure Disaster Recovery, offered by AWS, minimizes downtime and data loss by providing fast, reliable recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers into AWS Cloud. The CloudEndure console gives you granular control over individual machines […]
Visualizing usage of Provisioned IOPS volumes on Amazon EBS for analysis
Organizations are always looking to right-size cloud infrastructure and optimize to cost. Historically, one of the areas where it has been difficult to right-size at scale are Provisioned IOPS volumes on Amazon EBS, as optimization usually required third-party tools. The recently announced AWS Compute Optimizer assists in solving that problem, as it helps customers optimize compute resources […]
Query Amazon S3 Analytics data with Amazon Athena
I recently had a customer explain that they were aware of the benefits of various Amazon S3 storage classes, like S3 Standard, S3 Infrequent-Access, and S3 One-Zone Infrequent-Access, but they were not sure which tiers and lifecycle rules to apply to optimize their storage. This customer, and others like them, have multiple buckets and various […]
Monitor data transfer costs related to Amazon S3 Replication
UPDATE (2/10/2022): Amazon S3 Batch Replication launched on 2/8/2022, allowing you to replicate existing S3 objects and synchronize your S3 buckets. See the S3 User Guide for additional details. In this post, we will review how to monitor the cost and usage details of Amazon S3 Replication for use-cases such as compliance, disaster recovery, or […]