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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Optimizing stateful storage lifecycle on AWS with Kubernetes and Salesforce
Managing storage resources efficiently in cloud environments is a challenge for organizations of all sizes. As businesses scale their operations, they often accumulate unused storage volumes that continue to generate costs without providing value. This ‘orphaned’ storage problem is particularly acute in containerized environments, where the complexity of storage lifecycle management can lead to oversight […]
How Pendulum achieves 6x faster processing and 40% cost reduction with Amazon S3 Tables
Pendulum is an AI-powered analytics platform that aggregates and analyzes real-time data from social media, news, and podcasts. Designed to help organizations stay ahead, it enables reputation monitoring, early crisis detection, and influencer activity tracking. Using machine learning (ML) enables Pendulum to surface key insights from multiple channels, providing a comprehensive view of the digital […]
Bringing more to the table: How Amazon S3 Tables rapidly delivered new capabilities in the first 5 months
Amazon S3 redefined data storage when it launched as the first generally available AWS service in 2006 to deliver highly reliable, durable, secure, low-latency storage with virtually unlimited scale. While designed to deliver simple storage, S3 has proven to be built to handle the explosive growth of data we have seen in the last 19 […]
Enhancing resource-level permissions for copying Amazon EBS snapshots
Businesses use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots to capture point-in-time copies of application data volumes that can serve as baseline standards when creating new volumes. With snapshot copy, users are enabled to launch application workloads in different AWS Regions or meet data protection and disaster recovery requirements. Security and regulatory compliance remain top […]
Migrating files to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server using Robocopy
When migrating file shares to AWS, users need a direct and efficient solution for transferring their data. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server, and delivers a wide range of data access, data management, and administrative capabilities. There are a few different choices for migration. AWS DataSync […]
Validate recovery readiness with AWS Backup restore testing
Data resilience underpins disaster recovery (DR) and cyber resilience strategies, yet many organizations stumble with an incomplete approach: they diligently back up critical workloads but rarely confirm those backups can be restored. This gap can unravel into costly shocks—like an application owner learning their database restore overshoots a four-hour Recovery Time Objective (RTO), triggering hours […]