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Automatically scan for public Amazon S3 buckets and block public access

Data is a valuable asset for an organization and users are always looking for simple tools to protect their data from unauthorized access. While some use cases do require data to be publicly accessible at times, most enterprise use cases and data privacy depend on strictly managed permissions and no public access. Enterprises use Amazon […]

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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, […]

How Vivian Health is using Amazon S3 Express One Zone to accelerate healthcare hiring

Vivian Health connects travel nurses with job opportunities across the country. To do that, the platform has innovated not just the job search itself, but also the tooling used by recruiters and hiring managers to get qualified candidates matched to the right job and placed as quickly and as seamlessly as possible. However, the process […]

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Establish private connectivity for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery using AWS Direct Connect

As the size of an organization’s disaster recovery (DR) implementation grows, we often see the role of the network grow in importance. The relationship between DR and the network should not come as a surprise, as we expect network performance and the ability to replicate data between the source environment and the DR site to […]

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How to optimize querying your data in Amazon S3

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to close new customer access to Amazon S3 Select and Amazon S3 Glacier Select, effective July 25, 2024. Amazon S3 Select and Amazon S3 Glacier Select existing customers can continue to use the service as usual. AWS continues to invest in security and availability improvements for Amazon […]

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Use generative AI to query your Amazon S3 data lake for insights

Businesses store large volumes of data in their data lakes and rely on this data to extract insights and make important business decisions. However, business stakeholders sometimes lack the technical skills required to run complex queries against their data lakes. Instead, they rely on data scientists or analysts to build reports and dashboards or to […]

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Back up your Microsoft 365 estate with Veeam and Amazon S3

Users of productivity software and collaboration services such as Microsoft 365 want to protect their data and often tell us that data durability is one of their highest priorities. With the recent increases in reported cyber incidents, increasing data resilience against threats such as ransomware and other events that may compromise data durability is key. […]

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Bring Amazon S3 closer to the edge with Nasuni

Customers in Manufacturing, Real Estate, Engineering and Construction, Healthcare and other related industries often have remote facilities with limited network bandwidth where large amounts of data generated at the edge needs to be stored, processed and analyzed for making decisions in real time. For example, applications running in manufacturing plants need low latency access to […]

How Fetch reduced latency on image uploads using Amazon S3 Express One Zone

Fetch provides a convenient and rewarding platform for consumers to earn points and redeem them for various goods and services, making it an attractive option for those looking to maximize the value of their everyday purchases. Fetch’s users use a simple interface to upload their receipts for scanning and earn points for every receipt they […]