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KKCompany saves 93% on data storage by migrating music streaming services to AWS

KKCompany Technologies (KKCompany) is an AI multimedia technology group based in Taipei, with offices across Asia. Its flagship music streaming platform, KKBOX, serves over 12 million users worldwide. As its user base and music catalog rapidly grew, KKCompany faced significant challenges with its on-premises storage infrastructure. These included costly hardware scaling, constrained rack space, and […]

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Rapid monitoring of Amazon S3 bucket policy changes in AWS environments

Enterprises today manage hundreds of access policies across their expanding cloud environments. As they scale their cloud infrastructure, maintaining visibility into policy changes becomes increasingly important. Central security teams can enhance their cloud governance by implementing comprehensive monitoring of access policies. This approach supports compliance efforts while strengthening overall resource security across their environments. Users […]

How Uniphore achieved 30% cost savings by modernizing Windows servers on AWS

Uniphore is the first built-for-scale, AI-native company that infuses AI into every part of the enterprise experience. Uniphore’s enterprise-class multimodal AI and data platform unifies all elements of voice, video, text, and data by using generative AI, Knowledge AI, Emotion AI, and workflow automation together as trusted co-pilot. Uniphore was running one of their core […]

Protect on-premises VMware infrastructure with NetApp BlueXP Disaster Recovery, Amazon Elastic VMware Service, and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Your VMware workloads contain critical data that drives business decisions and powers your operations. Maintaining the availability and resilience of your data is a top priority where potential disasters such as ransomware threats, catastrophic hardware failures, and natural calamities, can lead to costly downtime and data loss. To address these challenges, all businesses require strategic […]

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Building multi-writer applications on Amazon S3 using native controls

Organizations managing data lakes often require additional infrastructure to support concurrent writes from multiple applications. Traditional approaches require external systems for coordination, adding infrastructure overhead, costs, and potential performance bottlenecks. Developers typically implement client-side locking mechanisms using databases or dedicated lock services, resulting in complex multi-step workflows. Amazon S3 offers capabilities to address these concurrent […]

Architecting scalable checkpoint storage for large-scale ML training on AWS

The exponential growth in size and complexity of foundation models (FMs) has created unprecedented infrastructure demands across compute, networking, and storage resources. Storage systems, in particular, face intense requirements for throughput, latency, and capacity. In machine learning (ML) model training, these storage demands are particularly evident in checkpointing—a critical reliability mechanism that periodically saves and […]

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Query Amazon S3 Tables from open source Trino using Apache Iceberg REST endpoint

Organizations are increasingly focused on addressing the growing challenge of managing and analyzing vast data volumes, while making sure that their data teams have timely access to this data to enable rapid insights and decision-making. Data analysts and scientists need self-service analytics capabilities to build and maintain data products, often involving complex transformations and frequent […]

SAN boot your Amazon EC2 enterprise environments from Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Traditionally, many enterprises and organizations with on-premises infrastructure have used boot-from-SAN (Storage Area Network) rather than using locally attached storage. Booting from SAN offers centralized management and backup of boot volumes, supports high availability through multipathing, and enables greater flexibility by allowing systems to boot from pre-configured OS images hosted on a shared storage array […]

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From raw to refined: building a data quality pipeline with AWS Glue and Amazon S3 Tables

Organizations often struggle to extract maximum value from their data lakes when running generative AI and analytics workloads due to data quality challenges. Although data lakes excel at storing massive amounts of raw, diverse data, they need robust governance and management practices to prevent common quality issues. Without proper data validation, cleansing processes, and ongoing […]

Enable item-level search and recovery for Amazon EC2 with AWS Backup

Users often use backups to help recover data after a disaster or security incident. However, what is often overlooked is the need to restore data due to an operational incident such as a data corruption event or deleted file. The ability to identify files and directories within a backup and restore them is an important […]