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Fundrise uses Amazon S3 Express One Zone to accelerate investment data processing

Fundrise is a financial technology company that brings alternative investments directly to individual investors. With more than 2 million users, Fundrise is one of the leading platforms of its kind in the United States. The challenge of providing a smooth, secure, and transparent experience for millions of users is largely unprecedented in the alternative investment […]

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How Amazon Ads uses Iceberg optimizations to accelerate their Spark workload on Amazon S3

In today’s data-driven business landscape, organizations are increasingly relying on massive data lakes to store, process, and analyze vast amounts of information. However, as these data repositories grow to petabyte scale, a key challenge for businesses is implementing transactional capabilities on their data lakes efficiently. The sheer volume of data requires immense computational power and […]

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Enhance resource selection in AWS Backup Policies in AWS Organizations

In today’s digital landscape, businesses rely on consistent and secure backups for data protection and disaster recovery (DR). A centralized backup policy enables organizations to enforce uniform data protection standards across departments and workloads, helping to maintain compliance and minimize risks. In the cloud, organizations use backup policies to manage data protection from a central […]

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How Delhivery migrated 500 TB of data across AWS Regions using Amazon S3 Replication

Delhivery is one of the largest third-party logistics providers in India. It fulfills millions of packages every day, servicing over 18,000 pin codes in India and powered by more than 20 automated sort centers, 90 warehouses, with over 2800 delivery centers. Data is at the core of the Delhivery’s business. In anticipating of potential regulatory […]

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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 […]

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Migrate data from Dropbox to Amazon S3 using Rclone

Whether you choose to operate entirely on AWS or in multicloud and hybrid environments, one of the primary reasons to adopt AWS is the broad choice of services we offer, enabling you to explore, build, deploy, and monitor your workloads. Amazon S3 is a great option for Dropbox users seeking a comprehensive storage solution. Amazon […]

Modernizing on-premises applications using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service and Amazon Elastic File System

Modern applications are expected to be available every minute of every day. Achieving the highest levels of availability requires more than setting up redundant hardware, networking, power, and other infrastructure components. You need to architect from the ground up to ensure availability in the event of natural disasters and technology failures. On-premises, this involves setting […]

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Analyze access patterns and use the most cost-effective Amazon S3 storage class

Businesses that use data lakes, machine learning (ML), and analytics need scalable data storage. However, not all stored data is accessed equally. Some portions of data may be accessed often, while whereas other portions of data are rarely accessed. Modern cloud storage allows users to move infrequently used, cold data to lower-cost storage classes. This […]

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Access a point in time with Amazon S3 Object Lambda

Point-in-time ‘snapshots’ enable administrators, developers, testers, and end users to quickly access a storage volume or share how it was at an earlier point-in-time. They are a longstanding approach to data protection and recovery, tracking changes within a storage system to reduce both Recovery Point Objective (RTO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). However, traditional snapshots […]