Category: HAQM Simple Storage Service (S3)

Update (January 24, 2024) – The original version of this post used the s3 sync command to copy objects from my local directory to the storage bucket. The newest version of this command does not support copying to directory buckets, so I have revised the example to use s3 cp instead. — Jeff; The new […]

Update November, 16 2023 — I added a link to the documentation with the exact IAM permissions required to use this capability. — Today, we’re making available a new capability of AWS Glue Data Catalog to allow automatic compaction of transactional tables in the Apache Iceberg format. This allows you to keep your transactional data […]

I’m excited to announce today a new capability of HAQM Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (HAQM MSK) (HAQM MSK) that allows you to continuously load data from an Apache Kafka cluster to HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3). We use HAQM Kinesis Data Firehose—an extract, transform, and load (ETL) service—to read data from a Kafka […]

The fifth annual AWS Storage Day took place on Aug. 9, 2023 and you can see the replay here. The first AWS Storage Day was hosted in 2019, and this event has grown into an innovation day that we look forward to delivering to you every year. In last year’s Storage Day post, I wrote […]

Update (September 2023) – Add information about enabling file deletion. Mountpoint for HAQM S3 is an open source file client that makes it easy for your file-aware Linux applications to connect directly to HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) buckets. Announced earlier this year as an alpha release, it is now generally available and ready […]

Last year, HAQM S3 Glacier celebrated its tenth anniversary. HAQM S3 Glacier is the leader in cloud cold storage, and I wrote about its innovations over the last decade. The HAQM S3 Glacier storage classes provide you with long-term, secure, and durable storage options to optimally archive your data at the lowest cost. The HAQM […]

It’s taken me some time to finally be comfortable with being infront of a camera, a strange thing for a Developer Advocate to say I know! Last week I joined a couple of my team-mates at the AWS London Studios to record a series of videos that will be published in our Build On AWS […]

Today, we are launching HAQM S3 dual-layer server-side encryption with keys stored in AWS Key Management Service (DSSE-KMS), a new encryption option in S3 that applies two layers of encryption to objects when they are uploaded to an S3 bucket. DSSE-KMS is designed to meet National Security Agency CNSSP 15 for FIPS compliance and Data-at-Rest Capability […]