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Tag: Amazon S3 Data Lake
Use generative AI to query your Amazon S3 data lake for insights
Businesses store large volumes of data in their data lakes and rely on this data to extract insights and make important business decisions. However, business stakeholders sometimes lack the technical skills required to run complex queries against their data lakes. Instead, they rely on data scientists or analysts to build reports and dashboards or to […]
Siemens builds Datalake2Go on AWS to analyze disparate data globally
Siemens is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smart buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation and advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose, adding real value for its customers. Siemens technology is everywhere, supporting the critical infrastructure and vital industries […]
How to develop a user-facing data application with IAM Identity Center and S3 Access Grants (Part 2)
This post is Part 2 of a two-part blog post series that will take you, an application developer, through the process of configuring and developing a data application that authenticates users with Microsoft Entra ID and then uses S3 Access Grants to access data on those users’ behalf. Part 1 of this series gave an […]
How to develop a user-facing data application with IAM Identity Center and S3 Access Grants (Part 1)
This is Part 1 of a two-part blog series: Configuring the application. Here is Part 2: Developing the application. When we at AWS talk to our customers about their data lakes, they usually describe a desired access pattern in which users and groups from a corporate directory are granted access to datasets in Amazon Simple […]
How to enforce Amazon S3 Access Grants with Immuta
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is the most popular object storage platform for modern data lakes. Organizations today evolved to adopt a lake house architecture that combines the scalability and cost effectiveness of data lakes with the performance and ease-of-use of data warehouses. Likewise, Amazon S3 plays an increasingly important role as the foundational […]
Scaling data access with Amazon S3 Access Grants
To adhere to the principle of least privilege, users define granular access to their Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data based on applications, personas, groups or organization units (OUs). This practice helps customers to mitigate the risk of unauthorized access, limiting potential damage in case of a security breach as employees only have access […]
Best practices for data lake protection with AWS Backup
Data lakes, powered by Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), provide organizations with the availability, agility, and flexibility required for modern analytics approaches to gain deeper insights. Protecting sensitive or business-critical information stored in these S3 buckets is a high priority for organizations. AWS Backup for Amazon S3 makes it easier to centrally automate the […]
How Arc XP lowered data transfer costs by $500k per year with Amazon CloudFront and Lambda@Edge on AWS
The Washington Post, an American daily newspaper company, delivers digital news content using Arc XP’s digital experience platform. Arc XP originated in The Post and has grown into a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business used by publishers, broadcasters, and brands to create, host, and monetize engaging content for over 1,500 websites globally. Photo Center is an Arc […]
Automatically archive and restore data with Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering
Customers of all sizes, in all industries, are using data lakes to transform data from a cost that must be managed, to a business asset. From time to time, data scientists and business analysts need to restore subsets of historical datasets for longitudinal studies, machine learning retraining, and more. However, users commonly write queries that don’t […]
See what’s in store for Amazon S3 at AWS re:Invent 2020-2021
UPDATE 9/8/2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. This time last year, the AWS Storage services and product marketing teams were entrenched in Las Vegas feverishly putting the final touches on content for re:Invent 2019 launches, sessions, workshops, and building makeshift workstations in a hotel ballroom for the biggest […]