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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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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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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 […]

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 […]

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Derive insights from AWS DataSync task reports using AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight

Update (10/30/2024): On October 30, 2024, AWS DataSync launched Enhanced mode tasks, prompting updates to this blog. Updates include a new step in the “Step 2: Populate Glue catalog with task reports data using a Glue crawler” section and detailed information on the new capabilities in “Updated steps for working with task reports of new […]

Migration to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server: cost optimization strategies and automation

Businesses today rely heavily on their file server infrastructure to store, manage, and share mission-critical data. However, maintaining and scaling these environments can be a complex and resource-intensive task. As customer needs and data volumes continue to grow, organizations often face the need to modernize their file server infrastructure. When migrating to Amazon FSx for […]

Direct Supply bolsters availability migrating to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Direct Supply, the leading provider of products and services to the Long-Term Care industry, migrated the bulk of our IT systems to AWS in early 2019. In the run-up to our cut over, we had five Server Message Block (SMB) file systems that needed to live alongside the applications they support. This meant that roughly […]

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Simplify Active Directory authentication with a custom identity provider for AWS Transfer Family

The secure exchange of files business-to-business is a common and important business practice in highly regulated industries. As organizations grow, maintaining separate user credentials for various platforms, such as file transfer services, can become increasingly complex and time-consuming. As customers build out Managed File Transfer (MFT) environments, often they end up having to create separate, […]

Migrate large HPC datasets from the edge to the cloud then synchronize continuously

Organizations running high-performance computing (HPC) workloads on premises often want to move data to the cloud to leverage scalability, performance, cost optimization, and other benefits of the cloud. For edge locations with limited or no available network bandwidth, online migrations can take a long time or be impossible. In locations where there is limited bandwidth […]

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How London Stock Exchange Group migrated 30 PB of market data using AWS DataSync

Update (5/29/2025): On May 29, 2025, AWS DataSync launched Enhanced mode support for cross-cloud transfers. Enhanced mode simplifies data transfers between AWS and other clouds by removing the need for a DataSync agent. It also provides higher performance and scalability when compared to Basic mode. For more details, see the What’s New announcement or review the documentation for guidance […]