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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 […]

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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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 […]

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 […]

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Best practice configuration of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for Microsoft SQL Server workloads

When it comes to running enterprise workloads, Microsoft SQL Server sits at the heart of many of these solutions providing the data needed to drive important business decisions. However, what is often not considered is the storage service underpinning the delivery of that critical data, and with the right tools and management applied, how that […]

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University of California Irvine backs up petabytes of research data to AWS

Editor’s note: AWS is not responsible for UCI’s public GitHub repo linked in this post, which has been provided so that interested parties can explore the solution described in this post in more detail. The University of California, Irvine (UCI) is a public land-grant research university with troves of research data stored on servers in […]

Amazon S3 Tables

How to consume tabular data from Amazon S3 Tables for insights and business reporting

When was the last time you found yourself trying to look at rows and rows of data in a spreadsheet struggling to interpret and draw conclusions? Many analysts and engineers experience the same challenge every day. Whether it’s analyzing sales trends, monitoring operational metrics, or understanding customer behavior, the challenge lies not just in interpreting […]

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Automating paper-to-electronic healthcare claims processing with AWS

Health plans process billions of claims electronically each year. Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) estimates that approximately 10% of claims still arrive as paper documents, accounting for hundreds of millions of paper submissions annually in the U.S. These paper claims create processing bottlenecks and consume a disproportionate share of operational costs and resources, with […]