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Manage costs for replicated delete markers in a disaster recovery setup on Amazon S3

Many businesses recognize the critical importance of safeguarding their essential data from potential disasters such as fires, floods, or ransomware events. Designing an effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy includes thoughtfully evaluating and selecting cost-effective solutions that fulfill compliance requirements. By using Amazon S3 features such as S3 object tags, S3 Versioning, and S3 Lifecycle, you can […]

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Migrating data access and Azure Active Directory with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

In today’s digital era, enterprises face significant challenges in data center modernization during their digital transformation journey. Traditional on-premises solutions struggle with high costs, complex management, and data growth. Organizations with intricate file-sharing systems and user permissions face difficulties in preserving user experiences and security. The tight integration of enterprise IDCs with complex Azure Active […]

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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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Seamless migration from any VMware environment to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Amazon EC2

Over the last 20+ years, commercially available compute virtualization solutions such as VMware have become powerful tools used to lower costs, improve efficiency, ease management tasks, and improve on-premises flexibility. Over time, most cloud providers have added advanced storage, efficiency, and management capabilities to their hypervisors that match or exceed those available to traditional on-premises […]

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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 […]