As far as big data storage goes, Amazon S3 has won the war. Even among storage vendors whose initials are not A.W.S., S3 is the defacto standard for storing lots of data. But AWS isn’t resting on its ...

Storing data in Parquet format on cloud object storage (such as AWS S3) has become mainstream, widely used in scenarios such ...

To guarantee higher availability and better performances, S3 has for years relied on an eventual consistency model. During the first week of re:invent, AWS announced that S3 now supports strong ...

AWS has launched new features for DynamoDB, Aurora and MemoryDB cloud databases to help scale distributed workloads and lower costs.

More companies than ever are using multiple cloud providers. In this special report, ZDNet provides best practices for managing multiple clouds, and practical advice for picking the right vendors and ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a new tier of its S3 object storage service that is up to 10 times faster than the standard edition.

At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi ...

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default.