InfoWorld

Cloudflare hopes lack of outbound data fees will convert AWS S3 users to its R2 storage service

The internet company is taking on the dominant AWS S3 service with its new object storage option R2 by promising to help avoid costly outbound-data charges. Credit: Victoire Joncheray modified by IDG ...
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MinIO Ushers in Support for Amazon’s S3 Express API at No Extra Cost

MinIO, the leader in high-performance object storage for the exabyte AI era, is debuting new AIStor support for Amazon's S3 Express API, becoming the first and only AI data storage platform to adopt ...

AWS claims 90% vector cost savings with S3 Vectors GA, calls it 'complementary' - analysts split on what it means for vector databases

Despite the aggressive cost claims and dramatic scale improvements, AWS is positioning S3 Vectors as a complementary storage ...
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Commvault Set to Acquire Clumio, Propelling Cyber-Resilient Amazon S3 Storage

Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is announcing that it will acquire Clumio, a technology leader in data protection for critical ...
TechRepublic

Top 6 Enterprise Data Storage Solutions

Amazon, IDrive, IBM, Google, NetApp and Wasabi offer some of the top enterprise data storage solutions. Explore their features and benefits, and find the right solution for your organization's needs.
VentureBeat

Frontend cloud provider challenges Amazon S3, Google Cloud with serverless database solutions for the edge

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More San Francisco-based Vercel, a frontend cloud provider, today unveiled its ...
Computerworld

Plug-in enables MySQL plus Amazon’s S3 for cheap database storage

An independent developer has created a free plug-in for the open-source MySQL database that lets users inexpensively store their data on Amazon.com Inc.’s Web storage service, S3. Mark Atwood, a ...
Bleeping Computer

Amazon S3 will now encrypt all new data with AES-256 by default

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

AWS adds vector functionality to S3 object storage

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced vector storage for its S3 cloud object storage – S3 Vectors – in a move it claims will reduce the cost of uploading, storing and querying vectorised data in AI ...
InfoQ

Amazon S3 Adds New Storage Class for Long-Lived Data and Simplifies Access Management

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...
Computer Weekly

Is object storage good for databases?

If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade or so would have been a resounding “no”. The response would have been pretty ...