Your Amazon Athena query performance improves if you convert your data into open source columnar formats, such as Apache Parquet

Expedited retrieval allows you to quickly access your data when you need to have almost immediate access to your information. This retrieval type can be used for archives up to 250MB. Expedited retrieval usually completes within 1 and 5 minutes.

In general, bucket owners pay for all Amazon S3 storage and data transfer costs associated with their bucket. A bucket owner, however, can configure a bucket to be a Requester Pays bucket. With Requester Pays buckets, the requester instead of the bucket owner pays the cost of the request and the data download from the bucket. The bucket owner always pays the cost of storing data.

Amazon S3 event notifications are designed to be delivered at least once. Typically, event notifications are delivered in seconds but can sometimes take a minute or longer.

Kafka consumer offset management protocol to keep track of what’s been uploaded to S3

Data lost or corrupted at this stage isn’t recoverable so the greatest design objective for Secor is data integrity.

Represents an object stored in Amazon S3.

S3ObjectInputStream

cloud storage service S3, which Amazon confirmed is experiencing “high error rates,”

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