AWS Storage Blog

Category: Open Source

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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 […]

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Accelerate Amazon S3 throughput with the AWS Common Runtime

Data is at the center of every machine learning pipeline. Whether pre-training foundation models (FMs), fine-tuning FMs with business-specific data, or serving inference queries, every step of the machine learning lifecycle needs low-cost, high-performance data storage to keep compute resources busy and performing useful work. Customers use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store training data […]

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The inside story on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high-performance open source file client

UPDATE (8/9/2023): Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now generally available. For details, please read the What’s New post. Amazon S3 is the best place to build data lakes because of its durability, availability, scalability, and security. Hundreds of thousands of data lakes are built on S3, storing diverse sets of unstructured data for use in […]