Category: AWS CLI

Immutability is a foundational data protection control, protecting data in place against unintended changes and deletions by authorized users, and changes by unauthorized users. In many cases, however, it isn’t clear at the time data is written how long it needs to stay immutable, or when that period should begin. A signed contract might need […]

As your Spark datasets grow, storage latency often becomes the constraint, impeding application performance. Query runtimes stretch, and the bottleneck shifts from compute to how fast each node can read from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). We benchmarked this directly on Amazon EMR with TPC-DS at 3 TB scale. On an 8-node Graviton4 cluster […]

WeatherBug is the third largest weather intelligence company in the US, delivering real-time forecasts, radar, lightning alerts, and interactive maps to over 10 million users. As their data footprint has grown across hundreds of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets in a multi-account AWS environment, their storage costs rose steadily with no clear visibility […]

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 […]

Organizations delivering content on a global scale rely on distributed edge networks to cache and serve billions of requests daily. These architectures depend on highly aggressive Time-To-Live (TTL) configurations to maximize performance and minimize origin load. On a cache miss, the network falls through to the origin to retrieve the requested content. At this scale, […]

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 Some were created manually in the AWS Management Console and others by scripts that are no longer actively maintained, provisioned by different business units with their own policies, lifecycle rules, encryption, and tags. […]

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 […]

Migrating petabytes of data across cloud providers is one of the most operationally demanding tasks an organization can take on. At this scale, simple transfer approaches break down. Teams lose track of what has been copied and what has failed. Transfers stall and require constant manual intervention to restart. In some cases, teams need to […]

Organizations across industries use signed URLs to grant temporary, credential-less access to private resources such as receipts, medical or financial records, legal files, or confidential reports. However, signed URLs can be reused by anyone until they expire, creating security risks if a URL is shared or inadvertently disclosed. This risk can be mitigated by vending […]

Every day, organizations expand into new markets, migrate critical workloads across geographies, and build systems that need to operate reliably in multiple locations. At the root of these efforts is a simple question: “What can I deploy, and where?” The answer shapes important architecture decisions, from which AWS Regions to expand into, to how you […]