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Analyze Amazon S3 storage costs using AWS Cost and Usage Reports, Amazon S3 Inventory, and Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Since its launch in 2006, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) has experienced major growth, supporting multiple use cases such as hosting websites, creating data lakes, serving as object storage for consumer applications, storing logs, and archiving data. This could be your data lake or application S3 bucket.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

Fun fact : I co-founded an e-commerce company (realistically, a mail-order catalog hosted online) in December 1992 using one of those internetworking applications called Gopher , which was vaguely popular at the time. Cloud gets introduced: Amazon AWS launched in public beta in 2006. in lieu of simply landing in a data lake.

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

2006: Amazon spearheads the cloud initiative, drops EC2 and S3 into the market. 2007: Amazon launches SimpleDB, a non-relational (NoSQL) database that allows businesses to cheaply process vast amounts of data with minimal effort. The platform is built on S3 and EC2 using a hosted Hadoop framework. Hadoop was developed in 2006.