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Category: Foundational (100)

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Cloud-powered tick data: revolutionizing financial data storage with Amazon S3 and LSEG

Data has become the lifeblood of modern financial markets, driving everything from investment decisions to regulatory compliance. Nowhere is this more evident than in electronic trading, where the ability to efficiently store, process, and analyze historical market data can make the difference between success and failure. Market participants are witnessing an unprecedented surge in tick […]

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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 […]

Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: The “extend” cloud data pattern

As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation Talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on “Extend” which is an emerging data pattern. You can also watch this four-minute video clip on the Extend data pattern if interested. Many companies find great success with the […]

Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: The “aggregate” cloud data pattern

As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on the “Aggregate” cloud data pattern, which is the most commonly adopted across AWS customers. You can also watch this six-minute video clip on the Aggregate data pattern for a […]

Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: The “curate” cloud data pattern

As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on the “Curate” data pattern, which we have seen more AWS customers adopt in the last 12-18 months as they look to leverage data sets for both analytics and AI […]

Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: Aggregate, curate, and extend

At AWS re:Invent, I do an Innovation Talk on the emerging data trends that shape the direction of cloud data strategies. Last year, I talked about Putting Your Data to Work with Generative AI, which not only covered how data is used with foundation models, but also how businesses should think about storing and classifying […]

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Fundrise uses Amazon S3 Express One Zone to accelerate investment data processing

Fundrise is a financial technology company that brings alternative investments directly to individual investors. With more than 2 million users, Fundrise is one of the leading platforms of its kind in the United States. The challenge of providing a smooth, secure, and transparent experience for millions of users is largely unprecedented in the alternative investment […]

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How Delhivery migrated 500 TB of data across AWS Regions using Amazon S3 Replication

Delhivery is one of the largest third-party logistics providers in India. It fulfills millions of packages every day, servicing over 18,000 pin codes in India and powered by more than 20 automated sort centers, 90 warehouses, with over 2800 delivery centers. Data is at the core of the Delhivery’s business. In anticipating of potential regulatory […]

Switch your file share access from Amazon FSx File Gateway to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Effective October 28, 2024, new customers will no longer be able to create a new Amazon FSx File Gateway (FSx File Gateway). If you would like to use the service, please create an FSx File Gateway prior to October 28, 2024. To begin using FSx File Gateway, customers can navigate to the Storage Gateway console in AWS […]

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Designing sustainable disaster recovery strategies

Disaster recovery (DR) is an important part of resilience and defines the process of preparing and recovering from a disaster. A disaster can be defined as any event that causes a serious negative impact to your business. How you respond to these unforeseen events has traditionally been a tradeoff between the cost of the solution, […]