AWS Storage Blog
Category: Management Tools
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How FICO modernizes file transfers with ETL automation using AWS Transfer Family
FICO powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 80 countries do everything from protecting four billion payment cards from fraud, to improving financial inclusion, and increasing supply chain resiliency. As a global leader in credit scoring and analytics, FICO processes massive volumes of sensitive […]
Real-time monitoring of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery using Amazon Q Developer
The ability to monitor and manage workloads in real-time is a foundational requirement for ensuring that you can meet your resilience objectives. Having visibility into key user activities and the performance of critical business functions, enables you to automate responses to events that can impact business operations. Effective monitoring is crucial for not only achieving […]
How Bridgewater maintains data consistency across Regions using Amazon S3 Replication
Bridgewater Associates is a global macro investment manager, with a core mission of understanding how the world’s markets and economies work by analyzing the drivers of markets and turning that understanding into high-quality portfolios and investment advice for their clients. The data that drives this economic research is stored in Bridgewater’s data lake, built on […]
Archiving relational databases to Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes for cost optimization
Many customers are growing their data footprints rapidly, with significantly more data stored in their relational database management systems (RDBMS) than ever before. Additionally, organizations subject to data compliance including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are often required […]
Understanding and monitoring latency for Amazon EBS volumes using Amazon CloudWatch
Organizations are continuing to build latency-sensitive applications for their business-critical workloads to ensure timely data processing. To make sure that their applications are working and performing as expected, users need effective monitoring and alarming across their infrastructure stack so they can quickly respond to disruptions that may impact their businesses. Storage plays a critical role […]