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Amazon S3 Cost Optimization Best Practices

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an essential cornerstone of AWS and among its most popular service offerings. S3 allows tenants to store, secure, and retrieve data from S3 buckets on demand. It is widely used for its high availability, scalability, and performance. It supports six storage classes and several use cases, including website hosting, backups, application data storage, and data lake storage. There are two primary components of Amazon S3: Buckets and Objects.

How Big Data Analytics Strengthens Cybersecurity

The attacks cybercriminals are using grow more complex and sophisticated by the day. However, with the help of big data analytics, you aren’t left defenseless. You can use big data analytics to fortify your cyber defenses and reduce your vulnerabilities. 1. Analytics can help you uncover suspicious patterns. Big data analytics protects your business data and strengthens your cybersecurity by providing valuable cybersecurity intelligence to your data analytics experts.

Data Mining Methods: The Top Five

Knowing what business problem you want to address will help you know which data mining technique will produce the best results. Each of the data mining strategies listed below addresses a different business challenge and yields a different result. We are surrounded by big data in today’s digital world, which is expected to rise at a rate of 40% per year over the next decade. The irony is that we are awash in data yet deficient in knowledge. Why?

A modern data stack for startups

Nowadays, easy access to data is table-stakes for high-performing companies. Easy access doesn't come for free, though: it requires investment and a careful selection of tools. For young companies like us, the question is how much? And when do you make that investment? Having grown to ten people, several without engineering backgrounds but with strong data needs, we decided 2022 was going to be that time.

Algist Bruggeman Uses Insights from InfluxDB to Optimize Industrial Processes and Production

Founded in 1884 and located in Ghent, Belgium, Algist Bruggeman supplies fresh, liquid, and dried yeast to industrial, semi-artisanal, and artisanal bakeries, as well as to the beer, wine, and pharma industries. Algist Bruggeman is part of the Lesaffre Group, a key global player in fermentation for more than a century. Even with more than a century of industrial production behind it, Algist Bruggeman continues to evolve its manufacturing processes.

Improve Apache Spark performance with the S3 magic committer

Most Apache Spark users overlook the choice of an S3 committer (a protocol used by Spark when writing output results to S3), because it is quite complex and documentation about it is scarce. This choice has a major impact on performance whenever you write data to S3. On average, a large portion of Spark jobs are spent writing to S3, so choosing the right S3 committer is important for AWS Spark users.