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Zalando handles millions of objects with Amazon S3 Event Notifications

As mentioned the last time we made a guest appearance on this blog, Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, with over 34 million active customers. The first Zalando blog post, authored by a colleague of mine and data engineer Max Schultze, discussed our data lake on Amazon S3. I am Ire […]

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How one AWS Hero uses AWS Storage Gateway for in-cloud backup

Over the course of my 25-year career in IT, including my time as an AWS Community Hero, I’ve developed a passion for data storage and protection. For the last 19 years, I’ve worked for Direct Supply, a provider of products, services, and solutions for the long-term care and acute care industries. In a previous blog, […]

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Autodesk adopts Amazon S3 to save 75% on storage and modernize backup and recovery

Autodesk is a leader in design and software for the architecture, engineering, construction, media and entertainment, and manufacturing industries. If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are that you’ve experienced the work of millions of Autodesk customers. Autodesk has been an AWS […]

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Migrating and managing large datasets on Amazon S3 (Part 1)

UPDATE: The second post in this two-part series was published on October 29th, 2020. This is the first of a two-post series intended for customers migrating and managing large datasets on Amazon S3. This post addresses moving your data to S3 and choosing the optimal storage class for your data. The second follow-on post (coming […]

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Reliable event processing with Amazon S3 Event Notifications

As AWS Solutions Architects, we help customers understand and plan AWS architectures that meet their business goals while remaining scalable, cost effective, secure, and reliable. One common pattern that comes up frequently is the desire to move from manual or polling-based strategies to reliable events processing, also known as event-driven architecture (EDA). This approach dovetails […]

Using Veeam with AWS Storage services to store offsite backups

Many customers are using Veeam Backup & Replication to protect their on-premises infrastructure and want to reduce the amount of physical backup infrastructure that they need to purchase and maintain. They also want to ensure that their backups reside in highly durable, cost effective storage. AWS Storage services such as Amazon S3, AWS Storage Gateway, […]

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Recovering from a disaster using AWS Storage Gateway and Amazon S3 Glacier

In the 1960s, a steel box changed the world. The welded steel cargo container may be one of the dullest inventions in history, but you are surrounded by its benefits each and every day. Before the 1960s, items were individually loaded onto a cargo ship and removed when the ship arrived at its destination. This […]

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How Reuters built easily accessible large-scale news archives on AWS

UPDATE 9/8/2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. My name is Romeo Radanyi and I am a Solutions Architect at global multimedia news agency Thomson Reuters, where I help teams understand and adopt cloud technologies. I am also involved in setting enterprise-level standards, pushing forward our Artificial Intelligence and […]

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How AppsFlyer reduced its data lake cost with Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

Many customers use Amazon S3 as the storage foundation of their data lake solution. A data lake is a centralized repository for raw and transformed data for real-time analytics, machine learning, business intelligence, and more. As new data is continuously generated and stored for long periods of time, data lakes on Amazon S3 enable you […]