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Migrate to Amazon S3 account regional namespaces

Since its launch in 2006, Amazon S3 has used a global namespace where bucket names must be unique across all AWS accounts and AWS Regions. This design has served customers well at scale, but organizations managing multiple accounts and environments often encounter naming collisions. When a bucket is deleted, its name returns to the global […]

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Enabling AI-powered analytics on enterprise file data: Configuring S3 Access Points for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP with Active Directory

In the past, data stored in a file system was inaccessible to analytical tools like Amazon Quick Suite and Amazon SageMaker. Now, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP supports Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Access Points, so you can access your file data stored on FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems as if it were in […]

Accelerate Apache Hadoop and Apache Iceberg on Amazon S3 with the Analytics Accelerator Library

Organizations processing large-scale data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and business intelligence face a persistent challenge: how to access and read massive datasets quickly and cost-effectively. As data volumes grow exponentially, the performance of data access patterns becomes more critical. Inefficient read operations can lead to longer processing times, higher compute costs, and delayed insights, […]

Building automated AWS Regional availability checks with Amazon S3

Every day, organizations expand into new markets, migrate critical workloads across geographies, and build systems that need to operate reliably in multiple locations. At the root of these efforts is a simple question: “What can I deploy, and where?” The answer shapes important architecture decisions, from which AWS Regions to expand into, to how you […]

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From hours to minutes: Rethinking Oracle database operations with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

When customers choose to run self-managed Oracle databases in the cloud, one of the fundamental decisions they make is where to store their data. Although many deployments use locally attached block storage, there’s a compelling alternative: running Oracle on a network file system such as Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. Shifting database storage from local disks […]

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Secure SFTP file sharing with AWS Transfer Family, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, and S3 Access Points

Financial institutions need to share files securely with partner banks while maintaining their existing file-based workflows. Many run applications using standard file systems such as Windows SMB or Linux NFS, but when sharing these files with external partners through SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), they traditionally had to copy data between file systems and SFTP […]

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How Tavily reduced AI search caching costs by 95% with Amazon S3 Express One Zone

Tavily is an AI infrastructure company building the web access layer for agents and large language models (LLMs). The company provides developer-friendly APIs that enable real-time, structured retrieval from the web. Their mission is to make information instantly accessible for intelligent systems, and they’re trusted by thousands of leading research, commercial AI teams, and enterprises […]

20 years of Amazon S3: A storage professional’s journey to AWS Hero

I’ve been working with data storage technologies for more than 20 years. Over that time, storage technologies have matured to keep up with exponential data growth. Solid state storage replaced spinning disk for the most critical workloads. Drive capacities grew from tens of gigabytes to tens of terabytes. On March 14, 2006, in the middle […]

AWS Storage at re:Invent 2025: Every session, organized by topic

Hi, I’m Buckets. The official AWS Storage mascot, self-appointed guardian of all things durable, scalable, and correctly permissioned. I’ve attended every re:Invent since 2006, and I have never once missed a storage breakout session. Not even the one scheduled at 8am on a Friday. Some call it dedication. I call it having strong consistency. re:Invent […]