AWS Storage Blog
Category: Amazon CloudFront
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 […]
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 […]
Creating a simple public file repository on Amazon S3
Organizations often need to store and serve various types of static content, such as data sets, archives, and file repositories, on the web. This content is typically accessed by end-users for research and analysis purposes or general content distribution. However, presenting this content in a user-friendly and easily browsable manner can be a significant challenge, […]
How Visual Layer builds high quality datasets on Amazon S3
Companies from different industries use data to help their Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems make intelligent decisions. For ML systems to work well, it is crucial to make sure that the massive datasets used for training ML models are of the highest quality, minimizing noise that can contribute to less-than-optimal performance. Processing […]
How Audible uses Amazon S3 Object Lambda to improve streaming playback performance
Audible is a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling that offers its customers a new way to enhance and enrich their lives daily. Audible content includes over 790,000 audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals. Audible has millions of members worldwide, who subscribe to one of 10 localized services designed for customers in Australia, Canada, France, […]
How Arc XP lowered data transfer costs by $500k per year with Amazon CloudFront and Lambda@Edge on AWS
The Washington Post, an American daily newspaper company, delivers digital news content using Arc XP’s digital experience platform. Arc XP originated in The Post and has grown into a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business used by publishers, broadcasters, and brands to create, host, and monetize engaging content for over 1,500 websites globally. Photo Center is an Arc […]
Modify images cached in Amazon CloudFront using Amazon S3 Object Lambda
Delivering optimized content is critical to a positive end user experience. As data access requirements evolve, the end user may need a transformed version of the original content. The transformations may include masking an image’s metadata, watermarking, or resizing an image before returning it to the user. The object should be stored in its original […]
Building an active-active, latency-based application across multiple Regions
Many enterprises are looking to optimize the performance of their applications in order to deliver the best possible experience to their end users. Applications with global user bases are keenly aware of latency, and how high latency and poor performance can negatively affect their users’ experience. With data in one location, like on premises, it […]
Updating Amazon S3 object ACLs at scale with S3 Batch Operations
Update (4/27/2023): Amazon S3 now automatically enables S3 Block Public Access and disables S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets in all AWS Regions. Access control lists (ACLs) are permission sets associated with data or other system resources that dictate access permissions, and they have been a staple of data security for decades. […]
Allowing external users to securely and directly upload files to Amazon S3
Organizations are often required to store files, images, and other digital assets in a repository. In many cases, the source of these files are partners or individuals who are not connected to internal systems and requires corporate authentication in order to upload the files. Customers traditionally use servers to handle file uploads, which can use […]