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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, […]

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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 Some were created manually in the AWS Management Console and others by scripts that are no longer actively maintained, provisioned by different business units with their own policies, lifecycle rules, encryption, and tags. […]

Integrating Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server with Microsoft Entra ID

Organizations are increasingly adopting cloud-based identity solutions to reduce infrastructure overhead and improve their security posture. For customers running file workloads on AWS, both Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server require joining a Microsoft Active Directory domain to serve SMB file shares and support Windows-based authentication. When customers have […]

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Query Amazon S3 access logs instantly with CloudWatch and S3 Tables

Knowing who accessed your data, when, and how is the foundation for security investigations, compliance audits, cost attribution, and performance troubleshooting. Detailed access logs capture every request: who made it, which resource was accessed, and what response was returned. In practice, though, they arrive as semi-structured records spread across different locations. Turning them into actionable […]

Simplify workforce data access with AWS Transfer Family web apps and Terraform

Enterprises increasingly need direct access to data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for analytics, reporting, collaboration, and decision-making. Enabling this access for non-technical users can be challenging: training staff on the AWS Management Console, building custom portals, or adopting third-party tools each carry trade-offs in cost, complexity, or security posture. And as […]

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Gain workload-specific storage insights with Amazon S3 Storage Lens groups

As industries generate and store growing volumes of data, gaining meaningful insights into storage usage becomes increasingly complex. You need to understand your data growth patterns and drivers while optimizing storage investments across different business units and workloads. However, obtaining the necessary visibility by data categories, departments, or applications remains operationally difficult, limiting the ability […]

Secure shared storage with CIFS share-level access controls on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Learn how to use CIFS share-level access controls with qtrees on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to enforce per-team access boundaries within a shared volume, preventing unauthorized share access and simplifying access management through Active Directory group membership.

Building persistent memory for multi-agent AI systems with Amazon S3 Vectors

The most capable multi-agent AI systems share a common trait: they give agents the right context at the right time. When agents lack access to shared history, including what other agents discovered, what tasks are already complete, and what decisions were made in previous sessions, they might duplicate work, contradict each other, and burn through […]

Orchestrate automated response for Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup at scale

Many organizations maintain a backup strategy built on the assumption that the backups themselves are clean. Ransomware can sit dormant in your environment for weeks, spreading across production systems while nightly backup jobs preserve it alongside your data. By the time the threat is identified, those backups are no longer recovery points; they are artifacts […]

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Amazon S3 audit logging, Part 3: Analyzing S3 Metadata journal tables for object lifecycle tracking

This is Part 3 of our three-part series on Amazon S3 audit logging. In Part 1, we covered server access logs for HTTP-level requests and performance analysis. In Part 2, we covered S3 data events in AWS CloudTrail for identity-focused security investigations. As data volumes grow and storage costs become a significant line item, organizations […]