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How Nearmap built continental-scale aerial search using Amazon S3 Vectors
Nearmap captures high-resolution aerial imagery across populated areas of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand several times a year, at resolutions as fine as 1.5 inches. More than 10,000 customers globally use these images to assess insurance portfolios, size solar arrays, and track construction sites. Since 2007, Nearmap has completed more than 35,000 […]
Securing backup data against modern threats with AWS Backup
Enterprises face an evolving spectrum of threats to their backup data. From ransomware attacks that encrypt production systems and target recovery points, to accidental deletions by well-meaning administrators, to full account compromises that put every resource at risk, organizations can no longer assume that traditional backup approaches will keep their data recoverable. When backup infrastructure […]
How Turso built a transactional database using Amazon S3 Express One Zone
Turso is a transactional, cloud database platform built on SQLite, serving developers and enterprises that need lightweight, high-density databases at the edge and in the cloud. Because each database is just a file, a single Turso compute node can host millions of them with no cold start. Turso delivers these databases in a Bring Your […]
Unlocking data residency use cases with Amazon S3 in AWS Local Zones
Organizations running workloads in metros and geographies far from major cloud infrastructure need scalable, fully managed object storage, but regulations or business requirements mandate that data stays within specific national or metropolitan boundaries. This is particularly true for financial services, healthcare, and public sector, where compliance frameworks not only dictate where primary data resides but […]
How Vanderbilt University scales digital archive discovery with Amazon S3 Metadata
Managing massive digital collections is hard. When you’re preserving decades of historical content and adding new materials daily, making that content discoverable matters more than the storage itself. Vanderbilt University Library discovered this firsthand while managing their extensive digital archives, including the renowned Vanderbilt Television News Archive (VTNA). Amazon S3 Metadata accelerates data discovery by […]
Replicate Amazon S3 bucket configurations across AWS Regions with AWS Step Functions
Many organizations operate thousands of Amazon S3 buckets in a single AWS Region, each with its own configuration accumulated over the years. Some were created manually in the AWS Management Console and others by scripts that are no longer actively maintained, provisioned by different business units with their own policies, lifecycle rules, encryption, and tags. […]
Query Amazon S3 access logs instantly with CloudWatch and S3 Tables
Knowing who accessed your data, when, and how is the foundation for security investigations, compliance audits, cost attribution, and performance troubleshooting. Detailed access logs capture every request: who made it, which resource was accessed, and what response was returned. In practice, though, they arrive as semi-structured records spread across different locations. Turning them into actionable […]
Gain workload-specific storage insights with Amazon S3 Storage Lens groups
As industries generate and store growing volumes of data, gaining meaningful insights into storage usage becomes increasingly complex. You need to understand your data growth patterns and drivers while optimizing storage investments across different business units and workloads. However, obtaining the necessary visibility by data categories, departments, or applications remains operationally difficult, limiting the ability […]
Migrating SAS grid to the cloud: How Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering delivers low cost, high performance, storage
For nearly two decades, organizations across healthcare, drug discovery, and financial services have relied on SAS Grid to power their most critical analytics workloads. SAS Grid (formally known as SAS Grid Manager) is an enterprise software platform developed by SAS Institute that distributes and manages large-scale analytical workloads across a cluster of servers. It acts […]
How Tavily reduced AI search caching costs by 95% with Amazon S3 Express One Zone
Tavily is an AI infrastructure company building the web access layer for agents and large language models (LLMs). The company provides developer-friendly APIs that enable real-time, structured retrieval from the web. Their mission is to make information instantly accessible for intelligent systems, and they’re trusted by thousands of leading research, commercial AI teams, and enterprises […]




