Category: Storage

Amazon EventBridge now supports enhanced logging capabilities that enable you to easily monitor and debug your event-driven applications on AWS. Enhanced logging provides complete event lifecycle tracking with detailed logs that show when events are published, matched against rules, delivered to subscribers, or encounter failures.

Amazon S3 Vectors is a new cloud object store that provides native support for storing and querying vectors at massive scale, offering up to 90% cost reduction compared to conventional approaches while seamlessly integrating with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, SageMaker, and OpenSearch for AI applications.

Amazon S3 Metadata now provides comprehensive visibility into all objects in S3 buckets through live inventory and journal tables, enabling SQL-based analysis of both existing and new objects with automatic updates within an hour of changes.

Every time I visit Seattle, the first thing that greets me at the airport is Mount Rainier. Did you know that the most innovative project at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is named after this mountain? Project Rainier is a new project to create what is expected to be the world’s most powerful computer for training […]

You can now attach Amazon S3 Access Points to your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems so that you can access your file data as if it were in S3. With this new capability, you can work with your file data using a broad range of applications that work with S3—all without any refactoring or data movement.

Amazon S3 now enables improved Apache Iceberg query performance through two new compaction strategies—sort and z-order—available for both S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets, helping organize data more efficiently by clustering similar values together and reducing file scanning during queries.

Last week’s hallmark event was the security-focused AWS re:Inforce conference. Now a tradition, the blog team wrote a re:Cap post to summarize the announcements and link to some of the top blog posts. To further summarize, several new security innovations were announced, including enhanced IAM Access Analyzer capabilities, MFA enforcement for root users, and threat […]

Multi-party approval for AWS Backup logically air-gapped vaults enables organizations to recover their backup data even when their AWS account is compromised, by creating approval teams of trusted individuals who can authorize vault sharing with a recovery account through a separate authentication path.