Amazon S3 Express One Zone is a high-performance, single-Availability Zone storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. Learn more about how S3 Express One Zone integrates with other AWS services and is accelerating outcomes for AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners and their customers.
AWS service integrations
You can use the following AWS services with the S3 Express One Zone storage class to support your specific low-latency use case.
Analytics partners
ChaosSearch
ChaosSearch delivers an S3-native live analytics database, turning your S3 data into a unified data lake for Search, SQL, and AI analytics, complemented by both public and private LLM orchestration.
“At ChaosSearch, our uniqueness lies in our native Amazon S3 data lake, facilitating SQL, Search, and LLM-based machine learning queries. We use the S3 Express One Zone storage class to revolutionize high performance analytics at scale. Our stateless architecture already leverages the industry-leading S3 fundamentals of scalability, durability, availability, and security, and now there is supercharged performance. With S3 Express One Zone, we get rapid time to insight with 60% faster queries and experience substantial cost savings due to the reduction in query costs, without any code modifications. S3 Express One Zone high performance makes S3 even more of a powerhouse!”
Thomas Hazel, Founder and CTO, ChaosSearch
Cloudera
At Cloudera, we believe data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. We empower people to transform their data into trusted enterprise AI so they can reduce costs and risks, increase productivity, and accelerate business performance.
“Cloudera is excited about the launch of Amazon S3 Express One Zone. Cloudera customers use the Cloudera platform to provide an Open Data Lakehouse for Trusted Enterprise AI to manage their cloud and on-premises data. With S3 Express One Zone, Cloudera customers can get up to 40% improved read and write performance, ultimately driving faster insights and value from all their data. We are actively working to support S3 Express One Zone across Cloudera to improve performance and lower our customers’ cloud infrastructure costs.”
Jim Clark, Vice President of Product Management, Cloudera
Datadog
Datadog is the unified cloud observability and security platform for any stack at any scale, providing a centralized view of metrics, traces, logs, security signals, cost data, and more so that all teams can collaborate more effectively and efficiently.
"The launch of the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class allows customers with performance-critical workloads to leverage highly performant and low latency cloud storage to improve processing times. By using Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring, customers can trace an application’s interactions with S3 Express One Zone and collect detailed insights into file I/O patterns. These insights can help customers optimize their code and use parallelization, caching, and multiple prefixes to further accelerate their application performance."
Yrieix Garnier, VP of Product, Datadog
Dremio
Dremio is the easy and open data lakehouse, providing self-service analytics with data warehouse functionality and data lake flexibility across all of your data.
"With Dremio, customers can quickly and easily do self-service analytics and perform queries directly on data residing in Amazon S3 without having to move or ETL that data. Customers can then present those query results across a wide variety of BI tools or applications. With the S3 Express One Zone storage class, Dremio is able to perform sub-second lightning-fast queries with high concurrency for our end users without rewriting any code and using the same S3 APIs we already use. As a result of leveraging S3 Express One Zone, Dremio’s end users enjoy lower latency, an average of 48% improved query runtime performance, and lower API request costs for their most frequently-queried data. S3 Express One Zone enables Dremio to provide an even better user experience to our mutual end users, with faster interactive query performance and lower overall TCO."
Roger Frey, VP of Alliances, Dremio
lakeFS/Treeverse
lakeFS is a scalable data version control system providing Git-like operations for data lakes, supporting any data format, in any size, across all object stores.
“By using the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class, lakeFS users are able to optimize costs and reduce compute time by accelerating existing IO intensive data pipelines, such as data pre-processing and deep learning AI/ML training times, by 10x. S3 Express One Zone improves the performance of lakeFS native operations by up to 5x, allowing for much faster diffs and merges on billions of objects. lakeFS, together with Mountpoint for Amazon S3 and S3 Express One Zone storage, provides a simple, highly performant, and cost-effective architecture for deep learning tasks and for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting large amounts of data."
Oz Katz, CTO & Co-Creator, lakeFS
Quickwit
Quickwit is an open-source distributed search engine. Designed to scale and for cost-efficiency, Quickwit stores its search index on object storage like S3.
"The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class delivers single-digit millisecond latency that cuts Quickwit's search time in half on medium-sized search queries. S3 Express One Zone can pair with searching on AWS Lambda to accelerate performance where caching opportunities are limited and latency impacts costs. In addition, with lower request pricing, storing Quickwit's search index on S3 Express One Zone can improve the TCO of our users with a lot of requests."
Paul Masurel, CEO, Quickwit
Starburst.io
For data-driven companies, Starburst offers a full-featured data lake analytics platform powered by Trino. Our platform includes the capabilities needed to discover, organize, and consume data on a data lake without the need for time-consuming and costly migrations.
"The new Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class provides high performance storage for Starburst Galaxy’s smart indexing and caching layer – Warp Speed. Many customers leverage Starburst Galaxy with Warp Speed to get fast query performance in numerous latency-sensitive scenarios, including anomaly and threat detection and ad-tech data analysis. Now, with Warp Speed’s index and cache elements stored in S3 Express One Zone, customers can benefit from improved query performance and faster time to insights."
Justin Borgman, Co-Founder & CEO, Starburst
Data protection partners
Commvault
Commvault enables cyber resilience for the hybrid world with leading security, the power of AI, and rapid, reliable recovery.
“The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class delivers high-performance, extremely fast object storage within a single AWS Availability Zone to our customers’ cloud-native applications. Customers can protect and recover their data in S3 Express One Zone with Commvault’s comprehensive data protection capabilities. Commvault supports protecting and recovering data in S3 Express One Zone's new directory buckets to help customers experience improved performance, added resilience, and accelerated recoverability that mission critical applications demand.”
Michael Fasulo, Sr. Director of Product Management, Commvault
HYCU
At HYCU, we believe in building a safer world by harmonizing protection and visibility for all the world’s data. By redefining data protection for the modern data estate, HYCU’s data protection as a service (DPaaS) platform delivers protection, granular restore, and data compliance capabilities for AWS and many industry-leading SaaS applications, as well as public cloud PaaS, IaaS and on-premises workloads.
“Organizations are rapidly modernizing their performance-critical applications in AWS, with Amazon S3 often becoming their core storage layer. It’s exciting to see AWS deliver a new high-performance storage class for these applications with the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class. We are pleased to be one of the first data protection partners to provide granular UI-driven backup and recovery capabilities with cross-regional disaster recovery for data in Amazon S3 Express One Zone. In addition, this expands customer's backup target options and allows them to leverage the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class as a backup target for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and DBaaS applications,”
Simon Taylor, Founder and CEO, HYCU, Inc.
Veritas
Veritas Technologies is the leader in secure multi-cloud data management. Over 80,000 customers—including 91% of the Fortune 100—rely on Veritas to help ensure the protection, recoverability, and compliance of their data.
"The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class offers a significant opportunity for organizations to harness faster processing speeds to drive business advantage. As they move their most performance-critical workloads to S3 Express One Zone they will be looking for seamless extension of their data protection to ensure that they continue to enjoy the same resilience against ransomware. Combining S3 Express One Zone with cloud-native cyber resiliency solutions from Veritas can help ensure that data is protected by Veritas just like in other S3 storage classes. When seconds of downtime hit hard on the bottom line and faster data processing is pivotal, Veritas's data protection and cyber resilience solutions allow you to quickly recover performance-critical data back to S3 Express One Zone.”
Matt Waxman, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Data Protection, Veritas
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning training partners
Akridata
Akridata makes data-centric AI a reality by providing large scale data curation, exploration, and analysis capabilities on unlabeled visual data.
“Akridata offers products for large scale computer vision data to accelerate deployment of production grade AI models across automotive, retail, manufacturing, and public safety domains. We efficiently capture, filter, and catalog data from edge to AWS and provide data science teams the ability to interactively explore, perform complex visual search, and distill effective training sets and analyze models. With the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class, we saw up to 3.5x boost in performance for our real-time visualization of large image and video datasets, which decreases both latency and used bandwidth. S3 Express One Zone helps solve our AI data logistics challenges and delivers massive value to data specialists by lowering request latency and lowering request costs for our most frequently accessed and processed data. With S3 Express One Zone, our customers can more efficiently handle growing data volumes at scale for their computer vision workloads, transforming the way they handle data.”
Kunal Vasavada, Sr. Director Solutions Engineering, Akridata, Inc
SnapLogic
SnapLogic is a pioneer in AI-led integration. The SnapLogic Platform accelerates digital transformation across the enterprise and empowers everyone to integrate faster and easier.
“Many of our customers use our generative integration platform to deliver mission critical and sometimes life-saving data to the right people, at the right time. Whether it’s powering global bank transitions in real time or helping pharmaceutical companies gather data from research hospitals in order to discover the next life saving vaccine, offering the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class's consistent single-digit millisecond request latency provides incredible performance that greatly accelerates data processing. Maintaining this speed over hundreds of thousands of transactions per second enables us to deliver global enterprise speed and, with our platform being built on AWS, will also help extend the security and scale our customers depend on.”
Jeremiah Stone, CTO, SnapLogic
System integrator partners
Caylent
Caylent is an AWS Premier Tier Services partner that empowers our customers' success by providing expert guidance and fostering innovation to deliver tangible business results. As an AWS exclusive cloud native services partner, Caylent is a one-stop shop for all your AWS adoption needs, from cloud foundations and modern application development to data platform modernization and generative AI.
"The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class delivers new levels of performance and scalability to help our customers accelerate their most data-intensive workloads, from Generative AI to Financial Services. Using this new storage class, we’ve observed performance improvements of 10x compared to Amazon S3 Standard. Caylent is excited to help customers move to the forefront of the AI/ML revolution by transitioning data from the cumbersome, provisioned, and high-priced shared file systems they use in on-premises HPC workloads today into the fully elastic high-performance cloud object storage offered by S3 Express One Zone."
Randall Hunt, VP of Cloud Strategy & Innovation, Caylent
Deloitte
Deloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world’s most admired brands, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500® and more than 8,500 U.S.-based private companies. We leverage our unique blend of business acumen, command of technology, and strategic technology alliances to advise our clients across industries as they build their future.
"Deloitte’s metadata extraction solution uses AI/ML model training that requires processing thousands of concurrent uploads to dynamically create metadata for uploaded media content with high accuracy. Leveraging Amazon S3 Express One Zone’s consistent single-digit millisecond latency, we decreased our upload time by 87% and our download time by 63% for small media files compared to S3 Standard, significantly accelerating our model training and helping achieve higher accuracy. The switch to S3 Express One Zone was simple because we were able to utilize the same S3 APIs we already use, and as an added benefit, we saw decreased costs for frequently queried objects."
Azhar Mohammed, Engineering Leader, Deloitte
Mission Cloud
"Mission Cloud is a next-generation cloud services provider, combining managed and professional services. We help businesses migrate, manage, modernize, and optimize their AWS environments at every stage of their cloud journey."
"Through our Data, Analytics, & Machine Learning practice, we've helped get hundreds of customer workloads onto AWS. And in our own work with the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class, we've seen increased velocity of ML training ingestion, shorter experiment times and more frequent experiment cadence, and a reduction in overall TCO for our customers. The user-friendly configuration of S3 Express One Zone simplifies our implementation process and how we educate customers, since it's the same APIs they already know and use. So for ML projects requiring single-digit millisecond latency and the ability to scale to hundreds of thousands of requests per second, we see S3 Express One Zone as an easy recommendation for our customers."
Dr. Na Yu, ML Consultant, Mission Cloud
SoftServe
SoftServe is an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner that expands the horizon of new technologies to help solve today's complex business challenges and achieve meaningful business outcomes. SoftServe architects and executes mature and innovative capabilities, such as cloud migration and modernization, digital engineering and application modernization, data and analytics, and AI/ML.
"Our customers with performance intensive workloads, such as AI/ML, life sciences, big data analytics, and financial risk modeling have millions of requests to data that need single-digit millisecond latency. The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class redefines the performance limits of cloud object storage, enabling clients to address those storage-specific challenges elastically - at virtually any scale - with simplified and seamless operations with existing S3 APIs. We are excited to extend our repeatable solutions built on top of S3 Express One Zone to accelerate digital transformation for our customers."
Ruslan Kusov, AWS Ambassador, Cloud COE Director, SoftServe
Other partner integrations
Cloudian
Cloudian, a hybrid edge storage leader, manages exabytes of on-premises data at 800 enterprises and government agencies worldwide, delivering complete data sovereignty and immutability solutions for AI/ML, data lakehouse, Kubernetes, and ransomware protection use cases.
"The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class delivers trailblazing performance, enabling our joint customers to accelerate high-performance latency sensitive workloads like AI/ML, advanced analytics, and media and entertainment post-production. Our HyperStore Bucket Migrator for S3 Express One Zone seamlessly migrates on-premises data to an AWS Availability Zone of our customers’ choosing, enabling them to selectively utilize GPU and compute resources while lowering request costs.”
Michael Tso, CEO, Cloudian
Colorfront
Colorfront is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, with offices in Los Angeles, plus sales partners worldwide. The company's popular, multi-award-winning on-set dailies and transcoding systems are utilized by small, medium, and large companies alike, to process and deliver media for Hollywood blockbusters, high-end episodic TV, and OTT internet entertainment.
"Colorfront is proud to collaborate with AWS on integrating our high-performance GPU architecture with the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class to deliver faster-than-real-time processing to transcode, decode, convert, wrap, and process files to various high-end formats. With S3 Express One Zone's single-digit millisecond latency and very high throughput, Colorfront customers can accelerate their digital video processing by up to 70% to meet their diverse media and entertainment demands for streaming delivery while maintaining DCP and IMF standards."
Brandon Heaslip, Director of Solutions Engineering, Colorfront
Terraform by HashiCorp
HashiCorp is a leader in infrastructure automation software and enables organizations to adopt consistent workflows and create a system of record for automating the cloud.
"The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class is a landmark launch from AWS with a significant leap in object storage performance to lower latency for performance-sensitive applications. On day one, our joint customers have the ability to deploy and control the configuration of new high-performance S3 directory buckets using safe, consistent, and repeatable infrastructure as code workflows. Using HashiCorp's Terraform, customers can easily deploy, configure, and manage both their directory buckets and general-purpose S3 buckets in seconds. Once deployed and configured, customer applications can easily access their data in S3 Express One Zone through the standard S3 APIs, providing accelerated data processing with seamless integration with many of the other AWS services that are supported in Terraform AWS Provider.“
Marc Cosentino, Sr. Product Manager, Hashicorp
Vcinity, Inc.
Vcinity, Inc. enables global enterprises and agencies to instantly turn their data into a strategic advantage. With Vcinity, enterprises can create a continuous data pipeline to securely use, move, and access data in real-time regardless of whether it sits on-prem, at the edge, in another availability zone (AZ), or even another cloud.
"Using Vcinity with the newly launched Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class, customers can leverage the fastest data ingest and the fastest cloud object storage end-to-end, accelerating performance-critical apps with a deterministic ingestion experience followed by consistent single-digit millisecond request latency. For our customers that operate time-sensitive and demanding workflows, such as live sports analysis, media processing, or data-intensive analytics, this solution expedites moving, ingesting, querying, and processing data—at scale and from anywhere. This enables accelerated application performance and subsequently time to insight, action, and results."
Harry Carr, CEO & Chairman, Vcinity
WarpStream
WarpStream is building a data streaming platform that functions as a fully compatible drop in replacement for Apache Kafka, built from the ground up with cloud economics in mind. Backed by cloud object storage and utilizing a stateless compute layer that runs in your VPC, WarpStream reduces the cost of running Apache Kafka by 80% or more while providing an infinitely scalable and elastic platform for streaming workloads at any scale.
“With Amazon S3 Express One Zone, we were able to reduce our P99 producer latency by 71% and our p99 end-to-end-latency by 66%. That's really significant and opens up WarpStream for use in a much wider variety of scenarios where latency is critical. S3 Express One Zone gives us a big ‘knob’ we can crank for our customers. If latency isn’t a main concern, they can use S3 Standard and get very low costs, but if they need lower latency, they can do that for higher cost without switching architectures. More importantly, they can make this decision on a workload-by-workload basis, so they adopt one technology and can pick where each workload sits on the cost/performance curve.”
Richard Artoul, CEO & Co-Founder, WarpStream
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