AWS Storage Blog

Category: Intermediate (200)

Amazon S3 featured image 2023

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 […]

AWS Transfer Family Featured Image

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 […]

Amazon EBS

Optimizing stateful storage lifecycle on AWS with Kubernetes and Salesforce

Managing storage resources efficiently in cloud environments is a challenge for organizations of all sizes. As businesses scale their operations, they often accumulate unused storage volumes that continue to generate costs without providing value. This ‘orphaned’ storage problem is particularly acute in containerized environments, where the complexity of storage lifecycle management can lead to oversight […]

Amazon S3 Tables

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 […]

Bucket filled with ice on a table

Bringing more to the table: How Amazon S3 Tables rapidly delivered new capabilities in the first 5 months

Amazon S3 redefined data storage when it launched as the first generally available AWS service in 2006 to deliver highly reliable, durable, secure, low-latency storage with virtually unlimited scale. While designed to deliver simple storage, S3 has proven to be built to handle the explosive growth of data we have seen in the last 19 […]

Enhancing resource-level permissions for copying Amazon EBS snapshots

Businesses use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots to capture point-in-time copies of application data volumes that can serve as baseline standards when creating new volumes. With snapshot copy, users are enabled to launch application workloads in different AWS Regions or meet data protection and disaster recovery requirements. Security and regulatory compliance remain top […]

Migrating files to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server using Robocopy

When migrating file shares to AWS, users need a direct and efficient solution for transferring their data. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server, and delivers a wide range of data access, data management, and administrative capabilities. There are a few different choices for migration. AWS DataSync […]

AWS Backup 2021 blog image

Validate recovery readiness with AWS Backup restore testing

Data resilience underpins disaster recovery (DR) and cyber resilience strategies, yet many organizations stumble with an incomplete approach: they diligently back up critical workloads but rarely confirm those backups can be restored. This gap can unravel into costly shocks—like an application owner learning their database restore overshoots a four-hour Recovery Time Objective (RTO), triggering hours […]

Amazon S3 Express One Zone thumbnail

Prime Video improved stream analytics performance with Amazon S3 Express One Zone

Amazon Prime Video provides a selection of original content and licensed movies and TV shows that you can stream or download as part of the Amazon Prime subscription. Prime Video’s telemetry platform serves as the backbone for monitoring playback performance, saving data snapshots for failure recovery, providing business analytics, and generating real-time insights across its […]

Amazon EBS

Reduce costs with customized delete protection for Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs

Safeguarding business-critical cloud resources against accidental loss and external threats such as ransomware is a top priority for modern organizations. These companies utilize privacy-enhancing technologies, malware scanning, and the ability to protect from accidental deletion to form key pillars of a strong data security posture. This combination helps ensure that data remains secure, protected from […]