All news with #aws s3 tag

📌 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.

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Service has expanded the OpenSearch Optimized instance family with OR2 and OM2 in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West). In internal benchmarks, OR2 delivers up to 26% higher indexing throughput versus OR1 (and up to 70% versus R7g), while OM2 delivers up to 15% higher throughput versus OR1 (and up to 66% versus M7g). Both instance types pair compute and local caching with S3-based managed storage, offer pay-as-you-go and reserved pricing, and come in a range of sizes to support indexing-heavy workloads.

🔖 AWS Compute Optimizer now automatically tags EBS snapshots it creates when snapshotting and deleting unattached Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes. The tag — aws:compute-optimizer:automation-event-id — stores the unique automation event identifier, linking each snapshot to the optimization action that produced it. This makes it easier to identify, track, and manage snapshots created through manual or automated optimization workflows. The feature is available in all Regions where Compute Optimizer Automation is provided.

📌 Amazon RDS Snapshot Export to S3 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, enabling you to export snapshot data in Apache Parquet format for analytics, retention, and machine learning workflows. The export runs directly on snapshots — including manual, automated system, and AWS Backup snapshots — without impacting database performance. Exported Parquet files can be analyzed with Amazon Athena, Amazon SageMaker, Redshift Spectrum, or big data frameworks like Apache Spark. You can initiate exports from the RDS console, AWS SDK, or CLI with just a few clicks.

🔍 Amazon S3 server access logs now include the AWS source region for each request, indicating the Region where a request originated. This information appears automatically at the end of every log entry (for example, a request to a us-east-1 bucket from us-west-2 will show "us-west-2") and requires no configuration or additional cost. The update helps teams identify cross-region traffic to optimize performance and cost and will roll out to all Regions in the coming weeks.

☁️ Amazon has expanded S3 Tables to AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), bringing integrated Apache Iceberg support and automated table maintenance to regulated cloud regions. S3 Tables continuously optimize storage layout and query performance while leveraging Intelligent-Tiering to manage costs based on access patterns without performance impact. The capability enables querying by popular AWS and third-party engines and reduces operational overhead for data lake teams.

🔐 Amazon announced that Amazon S3 Access Grants are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. Access Grants map corporate identities in directories such as Microsoft Entra ID or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to S3 datasets, enabling scalable, identity-based data access. The feature automates S3 permission assignment for end users and simplifies data governance for enterprises operating in Taipei. Refer to the AWS Region Table and product documentation for regional availability and deployment guidance.