A new set of capabilities for AWS S3 object storage seeks to improve hybrid and private cloud deployments and ease the use of S3 in customer data lakes. AWS, the dominant hyperscaler controlling more ...

S3 is the choice for systems around the world as a "place to put data." With an overwhelming durability of 99.999999999%, ...

The new capability, called Amazon S3 Files, lets applications running on AWS access an S3 storage bucket as if it were a local file system, reading and writing data using standard file operations ...

AWS S3 object storage capabilities are expanding, with add-on services for data lakehouses and metadata alongside other new offerings from the vendor. At AWS re:Invent 2024 this week, the ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage offering is now available via AWS Dedicated Local Zones, one of its on-premise cloud offerings. AWS has launched two storage classes for Dedicated Local Zones - ...

For many years, the dominant protocols to access shared storage have been block and file. Block-based access provides the ability, as the name suggests, to update individual blocks of data on a ...

Amazon on Monday unveiled a new automated cloud storage tiering capability for handling files that have not been accessed for 30 days. Termed S3 Intelligent-Tiering, it allows users to get the benefit ...

Amazon Web Services' (AWS) cloud storage platform S3 or Simple Storage Service today stores over 100 trillion objects. S3 was AWS' first generally available service that promised developers cheap ...

As your S3 storage requirements grow, it gets harder to understand exactly what you have, and this is especially true when it crosses multiple regions. This could have broad implications for ...

Large chunks of public cloud storage are built around object storage. Block and file are dominant in the datacentre, but in the cloud, where the need is for large amounts of relatively cheap storage ...