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University of California Irvine backs up petabytes of research data to AWS

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) is a public land-grant research university with troves of research data stored on servers in lab environments on about 1500 faculty-research lab environments on campus. UCI needed a solution to address the practical and economic challenge of providing a centralized backups for these independently-administered servers. The goal for the […]

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Automating paper-to-electronic healthcare claims processing with AWS

Health plans process billions of claims electronically each year. Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) estimates that approximately 10% of claims still arrive as paper documents, accounting for hundreds of millions of paper submissions annually in the U.S. These paper claims create processing bottlenecks and consume a disproportionate share of operational costs and resources, with […]

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Using Amazon S3 Express One Zone as a caching layer for S3 Standard

Data caching is a critical strategy for optimizing application performance in today’s data-intensive environments. By storing frequently accessed information in high-speed storage locations, organizations can dramatically reduce access times, optimize the use of compute resources, and improve overall system responsiveness. Effective caching strategies become particularly essential for workloads that require consistent low latency, such as […]

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How Pendulum achieves 6x faster processing and 40% cost reduction with Amazon S3 Tables

Pendulum is an AI-powered analytics platform that aggregates and analyzes real-time data from social media, news, and podcasts. Designed to help organizations stay ahead, it enables reputation monitoring, early crisis detection, and influencer activity tracking. Using machine learning (ML) enables Pendulum to surface key insights from multiple channels, providing a comprehensive view of the digital […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Event-driven framework to integrate AWS Backup service with CSPM tools

Many organizations use third-party Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools (for example Wiz.io) to continuously detect and remediate misconfiguration from build time to runtime across hybrid clouds such as AWS. CSPM tools often use AWS resource tags to enhance their security and compliance monitoring capabilities. Tags are key-value pairs that you can assign to AWS resources […]

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Integrating custom metadata with Amazon S3 Metadata

Organizations of all sizes face a common challenge: efficiently managing, organizing, and retrieving vast amounts of digital content. From images and videos to documents and application data, businesses are inundated with information that needs to be stored securely, accessed quickly, and analyzed effectively. The ability to extract, manage, and use metadata from this content is […]

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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 […]