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Tag: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Automate Amazon S3 File Gateway on Amazon EC2 with Terraform by HashiCorp

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) involves managing IT infrastructure through code and automation tools to reduce manual management prone to errors, slow scaling, and overhead. For organizations implementing a hybrid cloud infrastructure, automation can ensure uniformity, scalability, and cost reduction while getting cloud resources provisioned efficiently. Automated provisioning and configuration enable organizations to adapt, innovate, and […]

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Getting visibility into storage usage in multi-tenant Amazon S3 buckets

SaaS providers with multi-tenant environments use cloud solutions to dynamically scale their workloads as customer demand increases. As their cloud footprint grows, having visibility into each end-customer’s storage consumption becomes important to distribute resources accordingly. An organization can use storage usage data per customer (tenant) to adjust its pricing model or better plan its budget. […]

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Consolidate and query Amazon S3 Inventory reports for Region-wide object-level visibility

Organizations around the world store billions of objects and files representing terabytes to petabytes of data. Data is often owned by different teams, departments, or business units, spanning multiple locations. As the amount of datastores, locations, and owners grow, you need a way to cost-effectively maintain visibility on important characteristics of your data, including based […]

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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 […]

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How Continental uses Mountpoint for Amazon S3 in autonomous driving development – accelerating simulation performance by 20%

Continental and AWS have been collaborating to create the Continental Automotive Edge (CAEdge) framework – a modular hardware and software environment that connects the vehicle to the cloud and features virtual workbenches. The platform includes a virtual workbench offering numerous options to develop, supply, and maintain software-intensive system functions. It supports a wide range of automotive […]

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Optimizing performance of Apache Spark workloads on Amazon S3

This blog covers performance metrics, optimizations, and configuration tuning specific to OSS Spark running on Amazon EKS. For customers using or considering Amazon EMR on EKS, refer to the service documentation to get started and this blog post for the latest performance benchmark. Performance is top of mind for customers running streaming, extract transform load […]

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Disabling Amazon S3 access control lists with S3 Inventory

Access control lists (ACLs) define user access and the operations users can take on specific resources. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) was launched in 2006 with ACLs as its first authorization mechanism. Since 2011, Amazon S3 has also supported AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies for managing access to S3 buckets, and it recommends […]

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Migrating DigitalOcean Spaces to Amazon S3 using AWS DataSync

Organizations may at times have to transfer large amounts of object data from one cloud service provider to another. There can be several reasons for this, including data consolidation, moving workloads, disaster recovery planning, or cost optimization efforts. Completing a successful migration requires several key elements, including full encryption of the data being transferred, the […]

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Simplify multicloud data movement wherever data is stored with AWS DataSync

At AWS, we believe that customers get the best experience, performance, and cost when they choose to run their IT operations in the cloud. However, for a variety of reasons, some customers end up in a situation where they’re running their IT operations in a multicloud environment. For example, a customer might have acquired a […]

Amazon S3 Glacier Storage Classes

Reduce recovery time and optimize storage costs with faster restores from Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes and Commvault

Data is the lifeblood of any modern business. Organizations are storing more copies of their application data than ever before to recover from data loss, repair data corruption or ransomware damage, respond to compliance requests, and become more data driven. Storing more data at reduced cost enables businesses to extract more value and insights to […]