AWS Storage Blog
Tag: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Best practices for connecting your Veeam on-premises environment to Amazon S3
Many users safeguard their on-premises infrastructure with Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR). This is done to minimize the physical backup infrastructure they need to acquire and maintain. Additionally, they seek to make sure that their backups reside in highly durable, secure, and cost-effective storage solutions. By using Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), VBR users can […]
Migrate data from Google Drive to Amazon S3 using Rclone
Whether you choose to operate entirely on AWS or in multicloud and hybrid environments, one of the primary reasons to adopt AWS is the broad choice of services we offer, enabling you to innovate, build, deploy, and monitor your workloads. Amazon S3 is a great option for Google Drive users seeking a comprehensive storage solution. […]
Automatically scan for public Amazon S3 buckets and block public access
Data is a valuable asset for an organization and users are always looking for simple tools to protect their data from unauthorized access. While some use cases do require data to be publicly accessible at times, most enterprise use cases and data privacy depend on strictly managed permissions and no public access. Enterprises use Amazon […]
Secure data in a multi-tenant environment by automatically enforcing prefix-level encryption keys in Amazon S3
Many organizations need to store and process data that belong to multiple entities, commonly referred to as multi-tenancy. In these situations, it is important to secure every tenant’s data and ensure that a consumer can only access the data that they require for their responsibilities and nothing more. In particular, if a user or application […]
Simplify Active Directory authentication with a custom identity provider for AWS Transfer Family
The secure exchange of files business-to-business is a common and important business practice in highly regulated industries. As organizations grow, maintaining separate user credentials for various platforms, such as file transfer services, can become increasingly complex and time-consuming. As customers build out Managed File Transfer (MFT) environments, often they end up having to create separate, […]
How Vivian Health is using Amazon S3 Express One Zone to accelerate healthcare hiring
Vivian Health connects travel nurses with job opportunities across the country. To do that, the platform has innovated not just the job search itself, but also the tooling used by recruiters and hiring managers to get qualified candidates matched to the right job and placed as quickly and as seamlessly as possible. However, the process […]
Establish private connectivity for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery using AWS Direct Connect
As the size of an organization’s disaster recovery (DR) implementation grows, we often see the role of the network grow in importance. The relationship between DR and the network should not come as a surprise, as we expect network performance and the ability to replicate data between the source environment and the DR site to […]
How to optimize querying your data in Amazon S3
After careful consideration, we have made the decision to close new customer access to Amazon S3 Select and Amazon S3 Glacier Select, effective July 25, 2024. Amazon S3 Select and Amazon S3 Glacier Select existing customers can continue to use the service as usual. AWS continues to invest in security and availability improvements for Amazon […]
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 […]
Back up your Microsoft 365 estate with Veeam and Amazon S3
Users of productivity software and collaboration services such as Microsoft 365 want to protect their data and often tell us that data durability is one of their highest priorities. With the recent increases in reported cyber incidents, increasing data resilience against threats such as ransomware and other events that may compromise data durability is key. […]