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Optimizing data transfers for high throughput life science instruments using AWS DataSync

Healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) customers are generating more data than ever as they integrate the use of omics data with applications in drug discovery, clinical development, molecular diagnostics, and population health. The rate and volume of data that HCLS laboratories generate are a reflection of their lab instrumentation and day-to-day lab operations. Efficiently moving […]

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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 […]

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Cost-optimized log aggregation and archival in Amazon S3 using s3tar

According to a study by the International Data Corporation (IDC), the global datasphere is expected to grow from 33 zettabytes (ZB) in 2018 to 175 ZB by 2025, a staggering five-fold increase. Organizations that leverage distributed architectures generate a significant portion of their data footprint from observability data, including application logs, metrics, and traces, which […]

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Designing for multi-account scenarios using AWS Disaster Recovery Service

Disaster recovery (DR) plays an important role in the overall business continuity strategy of an organization. When implementing a DR solution, you must understand business drivers along with any governance, security, and operational requirements that influence the final solution. For example, organizations may have a requirement to maintain different accounts for security isolation, control cost […]

Backing up Oracle databases to Amazon S3 at scale

In today’s data-driven world, safeguarding critical information stored in Oracle databases is crucial for enterprises. Companies struggle to efficiently backing up vast amounts of data from hundreds of databases powering enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and critical applications. These backups must be secure, durable, and easily restorable to ensure business continuity, guard against ransomware, and […]

Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: The “extend” cloud data pattern

As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation Talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on “Extend” which is an emerging data pattern. You can also watch this four-minute video clip on the Extend data pattern if interested. Many companies find great success with the […]

Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: The “aggregate” cloud data pattern

As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on the “Aggregate” cloud data pattern, which is the most commonly adopted across AWS customers. You can also watch this six-minute video clip on the Aggregate data pattern for a […]

Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: The “curate” cloud data pattern

As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on the “Curate” data pattern, which we have seen more AWS customers adopt in the last 12-18 months as they look to leverage data sets for both analytics and AI […]

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Enhance logs for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery with CloudWatch Log Insights

Operational teams play a crucial role in making sure of the readiness and reliability of a disaster recovery (DR) solution. When these teams don’t have direct access to monitor the resources and services that make up a solution, it can create significant challenges. Logs provide insights into system behaviors, performance, and potential anomalies. When operations […]

Adapting to change with data patterns on AWS: Aggregate, curate, and extend

At AWS re:Invent, I do an Innovation Talk on the emerging data trends that shape the direction of cloud data strategies. Last year, I talked about Putting Your Data to Work with Generative AI, which not only covered how data is used with foundation models, but also how businesses should think about storing and classifying […]