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Tag: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
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 […]
How to consume tabular data from Amazon S3 Tables for insights and business reporting
When was the last time you found yourself trying to look at rows and rows of data in a spreadsheet struggling to interpret and draw conclusions? Many analysts and engineers experience the same challenge every day. Whether it’s analyzing sales trends, monitoring operational metrics, or understanding customer behavior, the challenge lies not just in interpreting […]
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 […]
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 […]
Understanding Amazon S3 client-side encryption options
Encryption serves a fundamental role in securing sensitive data both in transit and at rest. Server-side encryption offers simplicity and ease of implementation, with data encrypted where stored, and enables seamless integration with other services. In contrast, client-side encryption secures data where ingested or created, and offers additional capabilities to meet specific security requirements around […]
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 […]
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 […]
Streamlining access to tabular datasets stored in Amazon S3 Tables with DuckDB
As businesses continue to rely on data-driven decision-making, there’s an increasing demand for tools that streamline and accelerate the process of data analysis. Efficiency and simplicity in application architecture can serve as a competitive edge when driving high-stakes decisions. Developers are seeking lightweight, flexible tools that seamlessly integrate with their existing application stack, specifically solutions […]
Connect Snowflake to S3 Tables using the SageMaker Lakehouse Iceberg REST endpoint
Organizations today seek data analytics solutions that provide maximum flexibility and accessibility. Customers need their data to be readily available using their preferred query engines, and break down barriers across different computing environments. At the same time, they want a single copy of data to be used across these solutions, to track lineage, be cost […]
Build a managed Apache Iceberg data lake using Starburst and Amazon S3 Tables
Managing large-scale data analytics across diverse data sources has long been a challenge for enterprises. Data teams often struggle with complex data lake configurations, performance bottlenecks, and the need to maintain consistent data governance while enabling broad access to analytics capabilities. Today, Starburst announces a powerful solution to these challenges by extending their Apache Iceberg […]