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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 […]

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Secure data in a multi-tenant environment by automatically enforcing prefix-level encryption keys in Amazon S3

Many organizations need to store and process data that belong to multiple entities, commonly referred to as multi-tenancy. In these situations, it is important to secure every tenant’s data and ensure that a consumer can only access the data that they require for their responsibilities and nothing more. In particular, if a user or application […]

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Simplify Active Directory authentication with a custom identity provider for AWS Transfer Family

The secure exchange of files business-to-business is a common and important business practice in highly regulated industries. As organizations grow, maintaining separate user credentials for various platforms, such as file transfer services, can become increasingly complex and time-consuming. As customers build out Managed File Transfer (MFT) environments, often they end up having to create separate, […]

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How London Stock Exchange Group migrated 30 PB of market data using AWS DataSync

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has 30 PB of Tick History-PCAP data, which is ultra-high-quality global market data that is based on raw exchange data, timestamped to the nanosecond. An additional 60 TB is generated every day. LSEG sought to migrate their data from Wasabi cloud storage, LSEG was looking for a new solution to […]

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Using Amazon Cognito as an identity provider with AWS Transfer Family and Amazon S3

In highly regulated industries, securely exchanging files business-to-business is a crucial business practice. When building out a Managed File Transfer (MFT) environment, it is common to consider using a third-party identity solution for authenticating users. This approach offers simplicity for businesses that already use an identity service, allowing them to maintain identities for a variety […]

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Manage event ordering and duplicate events with Amazon S3 Event Notifications

Customers use data events to build applications to trigger and communicate between decoupled services. An event is a change in state of, or an update to, data. For certain applications, such as batch order processing or content management, customers may need to implement application logic to handle duplicate and out-of-order events. For these use cases, […]

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How Regeneron built a secure and scalable file transfer service using AWS Transfer Family

Secure and fast transfer of mission critical data is a top priority for today’s digital businesses. Fueled by the expectation of “anywhere, anytime information”, any type of delay impacts operational efficiency and effectiveness, making a scalable and secure data transfer solution a priority. Healthcare and life sciences organizations need a secure, compliant and scalable File […]

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Creating an ETL pipeline trigger for existing AWS DataSync tasks

Organizations look for ways to leverage the compute power of the cloud to analyze their data and produce reports to help drive business decisions. They want to load their data sets into extract-transform-load (ETL) pipelines for data processing. Once the data is processed, business decision makers at these organizations rely on accurate report generation to […]

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Retrieving previous versions of S3 bucket policies

When dealing with applications or storage, it is often helpful to log previous policy configurations and have the ability to retrieve them. This can help you managed and troubleshoot configuration changes and comply with security regulations. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket policies are resource-based policies that you can use to grant access permissions […]

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Troubleshooting automated pre- and post-scripts for AWS Backup

Customers can use event-driven architectures with decoupled tasks to automate and orchestrate custom scripts for backup jobs. With event-driven architectures, troubleshooting is key to understanding failures at the component levels in order to resolve issues that arise and keep the entire automated workflow running smoothly. In the first post in this two-part blog series, we […]