AWS Storage Blog
Tag: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Optimizing recommendations and analytics using Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3
Today, consumers navigate thousands of products on e-commerce sites, hundreds of shows on streaming platforms, and countless options in digital marketplaces. This choice overload creates decision fatigue, yet consumers continue to demand more variety and make more purchases online. As a result, personalization has become essential—consumers reward brands that deliver relevant, tailored online experiences. However, […]
Cross-account Amazon S3 bulk transfers with enhanced AWS KMS support
Cross-account Amazon S3 bulk transfers with enhanced AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) support become increasingly critical as organizations grow and accumulate vast amounts of digital assets across their enterprise. Managing millions or even billions of files presents unique challenges, especially when these files need to be moved securely between different AWS accounts. Operations such […]
Using conversational AI to derive insights from your data using Amazon S3 Metadata
Organizations face mounting challenges in managing and operationalizing their ever-growing data assets for machine learning and analytics workflows. When dealing with billions and trillions of objects, teams struggle to find what data they have and how to efficiently find specific datasets. Without proper data discovery and metadata management, teams spend valuable time searching for relevant […]
Accelerating Amazon S3 Batch Operations at scale with on-demand manifest generation
Modern enterprises routinely manage billions of objects across their cloud storage environments, needing efficient bulk operations for disaster recovery, compliance management, data transfer, and cost optimization. Performing these operations manually or through custom scripts becomes impractical at scale, often creating operational bottlenecks when time-sensitive actions are necessary. Organizations frequently need to identify and process specific […]
Building self-managed RAG applications with Amazon EKS and Amazon S3 Vectors
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a technique that optimizes large language model (LLM) outputs by referencing authoritative knowledge bases outside of the model’s training data before generating responses. This addresses common limitations of traditional LLMs, such as outdated knowledge, hallucinated facts, and misinterpreted terminology. Organizations can implement RAG to enhance their generative AI applications with current, […]
How Zeta Global scales multi-tenant data ingestion with Amazon S3 Tables
Zeta Global is a data-driven marketing technology company that uses consumer insights to empower brands in customer acquisition, growth, and retention. At the core of its operations is the Zeta Marketing Platform, an advanced system that applies sophisticated AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities on proprietary data from over 245 million U.S. consumer profiles. This […]
Enforcing organization-wide Amazon S3 bucket-tagging policies
In today’s complex cloud environments, maintaining consistent resource tagging is a critical challenge faced by organizations of all sizes. Proper resource tagging is essential for cost allocation, security compliance, operational management, and maintaining governance at scale. However, enforcing tagging standards across distributed teams and numerous resources can be difficult, especially when dealing with rapid deployment […]
Efficiently verify Amazon S3 data at scale with compute checksum operation
Organizations across industries must regularly verify the integrity of their stored datasets to protect valuable information, satisfy compliance requirements, and preserve trust. Media and entertainment customers validate assets to make sure that content remains intact, financial institutions run integrity checks to meet regulatory obligations, and research institutions confirm the reproducibility of scientific results. These verifications […]
Resilience by design: Building an effective ransomware recovery strategy
Ransomware events have become a board room priority for modern organizations. The data shows a clear trend: ransomware events have more than doubled since the pandemic began, with the financial services sector experiencing particularly high targeting rates. At AWS, our cross-field collaboration with global financial services customers, regulators, governing bodies and industry partners has resulted […]
Simplify log rotation with Amazon S3 Express One Zone
Log rotation is a standard operational practice for maintaining system health and performance while managing storage costs effectively. This practice involves systematically archiving log files to prevent them from consuming excessive storage. When a log file reaches a certain size or age, it’s rotated—meaning the current file is archived with a new name and a […]