AWS Storage Blog
Tag: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Access Amazon S3 backup data directly using S3 Access Points in AWS Backup
AWS Backup for Amazon S3 now lets you access your backup data through Amazon S3 Access Points. You create an access point for a recovery point, and AWS Backup provisions an S3 endpoint with an alias that works anywhere you would use a bucket name. You can then read backup data using standard S3 APIs, […]
Track healthcare data lineage in real time with Amazon S3 annotations
Organizations that store sensitive data need to answer a simple question: where did this data come from, and what happened to it? In healthcare, this isn’t optional. Regulations like HIPAA, GDPR, and SOX require organizations to produce this information on demand. When an auditor asks, for example, “Show me every transformation that touched patient record […]
Analyze Amazon S3 annotations at scale with materialized views
Customers managing large volumes of objects in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) often need to attach rich business context like compliance classifications, processing lineage, AI-generated labels, and more. Until now, this context lived in external databases or sidecar files that were stored as separate objects, which created complexity to manage and keep it up […]
Accelerate Amazon S3 Replication with automated S3 Batch Operations parallelization
As data volumes grow, organizations must move large datasets between storage locations to meet compliance requirements, optimize performance, and help meet data sovereignty requirements. However, migrating petabytes of data presents significant challenges: lengthy transfer times, complex coordination of parallel operations, data integrity verification, and substantial engineering overhead. Automation reduces resource consumption and operational complexity during […]
Simplify compliance-driven Amazon S3 data movement with multi-criteria filtering
Organizations routinely need to move a subset of their stored data from one location to another, such as a compliance audit that requires all PDFs from a specific quarter, a company reorganization that splits one tenant’s records into an isolated bucket, or a regulatory mandate that demands financial documents older than 7 years be archived […]
How Turso built a transactional database using Amazon S3 Express One Zone
Turso is a transactional, cloud database platform built on SQLite, serving developers and enterprises that need lightweight, high-density databases at the edge and in the cloud. Because each database is just a file, a single Turso compute node can host millions of them with no cold start. Turso delivers these databases in a Bring Your […]
Unlocking data residency use cases with Amazon S3 in AWS Local Zones
Organizations running workloads in metros and geographies far from major cloud infrastructure need scalable, fully managed object storage, but regulations or business requirements mandate that data stays within specific national or metropolitan boundaries. This is particularly true for financial services, healthcare, and public sector, where compliance frameworks not only dictate where primary data resides but […]
How Vanderbilt University scales digital archive discovery with Amazon S3 Metadata
Managing massive digital collections is hard. When you’re preserving decades of historical content and adding new materials daily, making that content discoverable matters more than the storage itself. Vanderbilt University Library discovered this firsthand while managing their extensive digital archives, including the renowned Vanderbilt Television News Archive (VTNA). Amazon S3 Metadata accelerates data discovery by […]
Zero-downtime Amazon S3 Versioning: Architectural patterns for mission-critical workloads
Organizations delivering content on a global scale rely on distributed edge networks to cache and serve billions of requests daily. These architectures depend on highly aggressive Time-To-Live (TTL) configurations to maximize performance and minimize origin load. On a cache miss, the network falls through to the origin to retrieve the requested content. At this scale, […]
Replicate Amazon S3 bucket configurations across AWS Regions with AWS Step Functions
Many organizations operate thousands of Amazon S3 buckets in a single AWS Region, each with its own configuration accumulated over the years. Some were created manually in the AWS Management Console and others by scripts that are no longer actively maintained, provisioned by different business units with their own policies, lifecycle rules, encryption, and tags. […]





