AWS Storage Blog
Tag: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Enable large-scale database migrations with AWS DMS and AWS Snowball
Notice: AWS DMS has evolved significantly since 2020, with new features like DMS Fleet Advisor and DMS Schema Conversion mentioned in the current documentation. Consult the latest AWS DMS and Snowball Edge documentation for more information. At some point in any database migration, the bandwidth of your network becomes a limiting factor. Without available high-speed internet links, it can take months to transfer large […]
Querying data without servers or databases using Amazon S3 Select
UPDATE (7/25/2024): Use Amazon Athena, S3 Object Lambda, or client-side filtering to query your data in Amazon S3. Learn more » In our time as Solutions Architects at AWS, we have supported all types of customers and use cases. We regularly hear the same feedback: instead of deploying and managing systems and infrastructure, customers want […]
How Bristol Myers Squibb uses Amazon S3 and AWS Storage Gateway to manage scientific data
Bristol Myers Squibb develops and discovers innovative medicines to help treat, manage, and cure serious diseases. We use many AWS services to help us manage our scientific data, lab workflows, and large computations for analyzing molecular, cellular, and clinical datasets. Genomics and clinical data, generated in Bristol Myers Squibb labs, is growing at an exponential […]
Minimize network latency with your AWS Transfer for SFTP servers
Do you have clients spread across the globe accessing your SFTP server? Are your globally distributed end users experiencing performance issues due to geographical distance from your server endpoints? Wouldn’t it be great if you could provide similar performance to all your clients irrespective of their location? In this post, I provide you with best […]
Online Tech Talk February 21: Getting started with Amazon S3
Don’t miss our AWS Online Storage Tech Talk on February 21, where we cover getting started with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and how Amazon S3 can help you build a foundation to scale your business. This Tech Talk is at 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM PT (12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET). Amazon S3, including Amazon […]
Lift and Shift migration of SFTP servers to AWS
Organizations across a variety of industries and geographical locations exchange data as part of their critical business workflows. Quite often, the operational burden of managing file transfer infrastructure and high capital expenses drains IT budgets. More importantly, it keeps those budgets from resourcing value added projects to differentiate businesses. To address these challenges, and unlock the […]
Creating and activating File Gateway on VMware
Wouldn’t it be great if your on-premises applications could use AWS Cloud Storage, without the need for any modifications? Do you want to use standard file storage protocols, such as SMB or NFS? If so, you can use File Gateway, which is part of AWS Storage Gateway. File Gateway presents SMB or NFS file shares for […]
Using Amazon FSx for Lustre for Genomics Workflows on AWS
Genomics datasets are getting larger year-over-year. Combining data from research initiatives across the globe, and having the ability to process it quickly, has been identified by large bioinformatics and genomics communities as an enabling mechanism for making significant scientific discoveries. Collaborating on a global scale requires data storage solutions that are globally accessible, highly available, […]
Aggregating logs with S3 Same-Region Replication
Aggregating logs to a secure dedicated location streamlines critical operations like Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). As more customers adopt a multi-account strategy, central logging becomes a key component of driving operational excellence. Considering the benefits, enterprise customers often use complex third-party tools to build their centralized log aggregation solution. With the announcement of […]
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 […]






