All news with #aws s3 tag

🧬 AWS HealthOmics now supports caching completed task outputs when runs are cancelled, automatically storing those outputs in the customer’s S3 bucket. When caching is enabled, customers can restart runs from the point of cancellation and avoid recomputing tasks that already finished. This capability helps researchers, bioinformaticians, and workflow developers debug and iterate more efficiently. Caching is available for Nextflow, WDL, and CWL runs across all HealthOmics regions.

🔁 Amazon Redshift now supports concurrency scaling for COPY queries from Amazon S3, enabling parallel ingestion of Parquet and ORC files without queuing delays. This lets organizations run time-sensitive ETL, real-time analytics, and high-frequency reporting without sacrificing query performance, as Redshift provisions additional compute automatically. The capability applies to both Serverless and provisioned clusters, with zero operational overhead and general availability across AWS commercial and GovCloud regions.

🔌 Amazon announced that Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bring-your-own file system mounts for Amazon S3 Files and Amazon EFS access points. Developers can attach these file systems into every agent session at a specified path so agents use standard file operations without custom mount code, privileged containers, or pre-run download orchestration. The feature preserves sub-millisecond latency for active data and NFS close-to-open consistency. It is available across the 15 AWS Regions that support AgentCore Runtime and requires an access point ARN plus a configured VPC.

🚀 AWS Transfer Family web apps are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The service provides a fully managed, branded web portal that lets workforces browse, upload, and download data stored in Amazon S3 through a browser. Administrators get a secure, simple interface for end-user file access without managing servers. This expands regional options for organizations operating in New Zealand.

🔍 Amazon Quick now supports Amazon S3 table buckets as a direct data source, enabling dashboards, conversational analytics, and exploration of Apache Iceberg tables stored in S3 without intermediate warehouses or OLAP layers. Paired with Zero-ETL ingestion from systems like Salesforce, SAP, and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, organizations can access near real-time insights with reduced pipeline complexity. Admins configure S3 table bucket permissions once, and authors can immediately create datasets and use Dataset Q&A to query the lakehouse in natural language.

🔒 Amazon S3 now supports five additional checksum algorithms — MD5, XXHash3, XXHash64, XXHash128, and SHA-512 — bringing the total to ten. S3 will validate and store the checksum you provide on upload, compute composite checksums for multipart uploads, and return stored checksums on download for verification. If you do not supply a checksum, CRC64NVME is applied by default. The new options integrate with replication, S3 Inventory, and S3 Batch Operations and are available across 37 AWS Regions at no extra cost.

📌 AWS Lambda now supports S3 Files, allowing functions to mount Amazon S3 buckets as file systems and perform standard file operations without pre-downloading objects. Built on Amazon EFS, S3 Files combines file-system performance with S3 scalability and durability, and multiple functions can share a mounted workspace concurrently. The integration streamlines stateful and AI/ML workflows and is configurable via console, CLI, SDKs, CloudFormation, or SAM; standard Lambda and S3 pricing applies.

📍 Amazon Location Service now supports bulk address validation for the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, enabling large-scale address cleaning, standardization, and correction. The feature checks addresses against authoritative postal data, returns confidence and deliverability indicators, and can optionally include geocodes for US, Canada, and Australia. Customers submit jobs via the new Jobs API by uploading records to their own Amazon S3 buckets and retrieving enriched results when processing completes.

🔧 Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region now supports up to four Elastic Volumes modifications per volume within a rolling 24‑hour window. Elastic Volumes lets you increase size, change type, or adjust performance without detaching volumes or restarting instances. The enhancement is automatically available and permits starting a new modification immediately after the previous one completes, improving operational agility for sudden data growth or workload spikes.

📦 Amazon announced that S3 Express One Zone, its high-performance storage class for latency-sensitive workloads, now supports S3 Inventory. Inventory provides a scheduled, asynchronous alternative to the synchronous List API, producing daily or weekly reports that include object metadata, encryption status, and storage class. You can configure reports via the AWS CLI, SDKs, or S3 API and choose CSV, ORC, or Parquet output, with delivery to a specified destination bucket.

🚚 AWS now lets customers deliver AWS Data Exports — including Cost and Usage Report 2.0 (CUR 2.0), FOCUS, Cost Optimization Recommendations, and Carbon Emissions reports — directly into an authorized Amazon S3 bucket in another AWS account. This removes the need to replicate billing data across accounts and eliminates duplicate storage costs by allowing exports to target a destination bucket when created. The destination account owner controls which source accounts may deliver data via S3 bucket policies. The capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions except AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions.

🔐 Amazon Quick now supports document-level access control lists (ACLs) for Amazon S3 knowledge bases, enabling granular permissions for documents and folders. You can configure ACLs with a centralized global ACL configuration file or with per-document metadata files for faster, targeted permission updates. ACLs are permanent at knowledge base creation and documents without an ACL entry are not ingested. The feature is available in all AWS Regions and is documented in the Amazon Quick User Guide.

🔁 Amazon S3 Lifecycle now prevents expiration and transition actions on objects that failed replication, helping operators avoid unintended deletions or storage-class transitions when replication is misconfigured or lacks permissions. Objects that fail replication will be skipped by lifecycle rules until replication is corrected. After you fix replication configuration or permissions and run S3 Batch Replication to catch up, lifecycle will automatically process those objects according to your configured rules.

🗃️ This post outlines a secure, automated framework for collecting forensic artifacts into Amazon S3, emphasizing least privilege, time-limited AWS STS credentials, and compatibility with existing forensic tools. It recommends S3 hardening—encryption in transit, CMK-based server-side encryption, CloudTrail data events, object versioning and Object Lock—to preserve chain of custody. The post demonstrates vending scoped temporary credentials and an AWS CDK reference implementation that automates collection using SQS, Lambda, Step Functions, and Systems Manager.

📁 S3 Files provides a shared, high-performance file system that lets any AWS compute resource access data directly in Amazon S3 with full file-system semantics and low-latency performance, without moving objects out of S3. Built on Amazon EFS, it maintains a live view of bucket objects and translates file operations into efficient S3 requests so applications and agents run unchanged. It caches active data for fast reads, delivers multi-terabytes-per-second aggregate throughput, and is generally available in 34 AWS Regions.

🔐 Amazon S3 is rolling out a new default bucket security setting that will automatically disable server-side encryption with customer-provided keys (SSE-C) for all new general purpose buckets. For existing buckets in accounts without any SSE-C-encrypted objects, S3 will also block SSE-C for new write requests. AWS will not change buckets in accounts that already use SSE-C. The rollout covers 37 regions, including AWS China and GovCloud, over the next few weeks.

🚀 Amazon expanded S3 Vectors into 17 additional AWS Regions — now available in 31 Regions worldwide. S3 Vectors is the first cloud object storage with native vector support, built for AI agents, inference, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and semantic search at billion-vector scale. It supports up to two billion vectors per index, elastic scaling to 10,000 vector indexes per bucket, low-latency queries (frequent queries as fast as 100 ms; infrequent under one second), and native integration with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases to help reduce RAG costs.

📈 Amazon S3 Express One Zone now publishes request metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing minute-level visibility into request counts, data transfer volumes, error rates, and latency for latency-sensitive applications. These request metrics complement existing storage metrics and are accessible via the CloudWatch console, S3 console, S3 API, and AWS CLI across all Regions where the storage class is available. Standard CloudWatch pricing applies.

🔒 Amazon S3 Access Grants are now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The capability maps identities from directories such as Microsoft Entra ID and AWS IAM principals directly to S3 datasets, enabling identity-driven, automated access provisioning for users. This reduces the need for manual policy changes and simplifies large-scale permission management. Local availability also helps improve latency and supports regional compliance and governance requirements for organizations operating in New Zealand.

🔐 AWS now supports account regional namespaces for Amazon S3 general purpose buckets, removing the need to find globally unique bucket names and enabling predictable, per-customer or per-team naming. To use it, include the new bucket namespace request header with the CreateBucket API or add your account regional suffix in CloudFormation templates. Security teams can enforce namespace-only creation via SCPs and IAM policies. This feature is available in 37 Regions, including AWS China and GovCloud, at no extra cost.