Category: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

A data warehouse is a database optimized to analyze relational data coming from transactional systems and line of business applications. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze data using standard SQL and existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools. To get information from unstructured data that would […]

Storage that is secure, scalable, durable, and highly available is a fundamental component of cloud computing. That’s why Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was the first service launched by AWS, back in 2006. It has been a building block of many of the more than 175 services that AWS now offers. As we approach the […]

S3 Cross-Region Replication has been around since early 2015 (new Cross-Region Replication for Amazon S3), and Same-Region Replication has been around for a couple of months. Replication is very easy to set up, and lets you use rules to specify that you want to copy objects from one S3 bucket to another one. The rules […]

Storing your data in Amazon S3 provides lots of benefits in terms of scale, reliability, and cost effectiveness. On top of that, you can leverage Amazon EMR to process and analyze your data using open source tools like Apache Spark, Hive, and Presto. As powerful as these tools are, it can still be challenging to deal with use cases where […]

AWS DataSync helps you to move large amounts of data into or out of the AWS Cloud (read my post, New – AWS DataSync – Automated and Accelerated Data Transfer, to learn more). As I explained in my post DataSync is a great fit for your Migration, Upload & Process, and Backup / DR use […]

Learn about AWS Services & Solutions – September AWS Online Tech Talks Join us this September to learn about AWS services and solutions. The AWS Online Tech Talks are live, online presentations that cover a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These tech talks, led by AWS solutions architects and engineers, feature technical […]

As soon as companies started to have data in digital format, it was possible for them to build a data warehouse, collecting data from their operational systems, such as Customer relationship management (CRM) and Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and use this information to support their business decisions. The reduction in costs of storage, together […]

We want to help state and local governments, community organizations, and educational institutions to better prepare for natural and man-made disasters that could affect their ability to run their mission-critical IT systems. Today we are launching AWS Project Resilience. This new element of our existing Disaster Response program offers up to $2,000 in AWS credits […]