Category: Compute

Users often use backups to help recover data after a disaster or security incident. However, what is often overlooked is the need to restore data due to an operational incident such as a data corruption event or deleted file. The ability to identify files and directories within a backup and restore them is an important […]

When it comes to running enterprise workloads, Microsoft SQL Server sits at the heart of many of these solutions providing the data needed to drive important business decisions. However, what is often not considered is the storage service underpinning the delivery of that critical data, and with the right tools and management applied, how that […]

Editor’s note: AWS is not responsible for UCI’s public GitHub repo linked in this post, which has been provided so that interested parties can explore the solution described in this post in more detail. The University of California, Irvine (UCI) is a public land-grant research university with troves of research data stored on servers in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Over the past two decades, virtualization, specifically VMware was the key technology trend that has helped organizations reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, and simplify infrastructure management. However, the technology landscape is rapidly evolving. Cloud service providers now offer advanced hypervisor capabilities that match or exceed traditional on-premises virtualization solutions, while providing seamless integration with a […]

Customer Story | Amazon S3 Tables – Pendulum migrated from self-managed Apache Iceberg tables to fully managed Amazon S3 Tables and saw faster processing, fewer weekly maintenance hours, and reduced costs for their analytics platform. Pendulum is an AI-powered analytics platform that aggregates and analyzes real-time data from social media, news, and podcasts. Designed to […]

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 […]

Businesses use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots to capture point-in-time copies of application data volumes that can serve as baseline standards when creating new volumes. With snapshot copy, users are enabled to launch application workloads in different AWS Regions or meet data protection and disaster recovery requirements. Security and regulatory compliance remain top […]