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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is the most popular object storage platform for modern data lakes. Organizations today evolved to adopt a lake house architecture that combines the scalability and cost effectiveness of data lakes with the performance and ease-of-use of data warehouses. Likewise, Amazon S3 plays an increasingly important role as the foundational […]

Today, customers increasingly choose to store data for longer because they recognize its future value potential. Storing data longer, coupled with exponential data growth, has led to customers placing a greater emphasis on storage cost optimization and using cost-effective storage classes. However, a modern data archiving strategy not only calls for optimizing storage costs, but […]

Update (5/29/2025): On May 29, 2025, AWS DataSync launched Enhanced mode support for cross-cloud transfers. Enhanced mode simplifies data transfers between AWS and other clouds by removing the need for a DataSync agent. It also provides higher performance and scalability when compared to Basic mode. For more details, see the What’s New announcement or review the documentation for guidance […]

PingCAP, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Partner, is the company behind TiDB, an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for building modern applications. TiDB is widely used and trusted by technologists around the world. In July 2023, PingCAP released TiDB Serverless, a fully managed, autonomous DBaaS offering of TiDB. However, based on TiDB’s existing architecture, PingCAP […]

Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) applications are approaching a 40 billion dollar market size with a high compound annual growth rate. While continuing to focus on enabling innovative healthcare, EHR consumers can benefit from adopting cloud-based approaches that reduce operational burden, management overhead, reduce capital outlay, and total cost of ownership. EHR deployments are complex in […]

Every organization should be seeking to optimize resource utilization, aiming for the highest efficacy at the lowest possible cost. To make effective data-driven cost optimization decisions, it’s essential to have relevant data, tools for generating reports, and clear documentation on how to do so. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) offers serverless, scalable, and fully […]

Organizations may need to transfer large numbers of files from one cloud provider to another for a variety of reasons like workload migration, disaster recovery, or a requirement to process data in other clouds. Data transfers typically require end-to-end encryption, the ability to detect changes, object validation, network throttling, monitoring, and cost optimization. Building a […]

Data protection is a top priority for our customers. Your disaster recovery (DR) strategy might require you to continuously replicate your data across multiple geographic regions to mitigate against natural disasters such as earthquakes or technical disasters that may affect a particular geographic region. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, which provides fully managed shared storage […]

Orca Security, an AWS Partner, is an independent cybersecurity software provider whose agent-less cloud security environment is trusted by hundreds of enterprises globally. Orca makes cloud security simple for enterprises moving to and scaling with AWS with its patented SideScanning™ technology and Unified Data Model. Orca’s customers use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes […]

Update (5/29/2025): On May 29, 2025, AWS DataSync launched Enhanced mode support for cross-cloud transfers. Enhanced mode simplifies data transfers between AWS and other clouds by removing the need for a DataSync agent. It also provides higher performance and scalability when compared to Basic mode. For more details, see the What’s New announcement or review the documentation for guidance […]