Amazon S3 Express One Zone is a new storage
class purpose-built to deliver the highest performance and lowest
latency object storage for customers’ most frequently accessed
data
ChaosSearch, Cloudera, Colorfront, and
Pinterest are among customers and partners using Amazon S3 Express
One Zone
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the
general availability of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Express One Zone, a new high-performance, single-zone Amazon S3
storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent, single-digit
millisecond data access for customers’ most latency-sensitive
applications. Amazon S3 Express One Zone is the lowest latency
cloud object storage available, with data access speed up to 10
times faster and request costs up to 50% lower than Amazon S3
Standard, from any AWS Availability Zone within an AWS Region. For
the most demanding workloads, customers can choose to collocate
their Amazon S3 Express One Zone data in the same AWS Availability
Zone as their compute resources, optimizing compute performance and
costs while increasing data processing speed. Amazon S3 Express One
Zone is the most performant storage class for request-intensive
operations such as machine learning (ML) training and inference,
interactive analytics, and media content creation. With Amazon S3
Express One Zone, customers can scale their storage up or down as
needed and work with the Amazon S3 APIs they use today. To get
started with Amazon S3 Express One Zone, visit
aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/express-one-zone/.
Since its launch 17 years ago, Amazon S3 is the most popular
cloud storage service, with millions of customers around the world
across all industries and use cases. With industry-leading
durability, availability, security, and scalability, Amazon S3
holds more than 350 trillion objects and averages more than 100
million requests per second. Offering a wide range of storage
classes, Amazon S3 delivers the best performance at the lowest cost
for frequent, infrequent, and archive data-access patterns for
virtually any workload. However, emerging use cases, such as ML
training and inference, interactive analytics, financial model
simulations, real-time advertising, and media content creation, can
write and access data millions of times per minute and require
consistent, single-digit millisecond response times to meet
performance needs. For example, artificial intelligence (AI) and ML
model training often requires millions of images and lines of text
to be processed in minutes, and data access speed is critical to
achieve the highest compute efficiency. In order to reduce storage
latency, application run time, and compute costs for
performance-critical applications, customers move their most
frequently accessed data from Amazon S3 to custom caching
solutions. However, this increases complexity, adds operational
burden, and requires application modifications because customers
must maintain additional storage infrastructure with multiple sets
of APIs. This also leads to idle compute time because the compute
infrastructure must run while data is copied into the instance,
which can increase costs and create inefficiencies.
Amazon S3 Express One Zone is a new, high-performance storage
class that delivers the fastest data access speed and highest
performance of any cloud object storage for customers’ most
latency-sensitive applications. By replicating and storing data on
purpose-built hardware and software, Amazon S3 Express One Zone
provides up to 10 times faster access speed than Amazon S3
Standard, resulting in accelerated data processing. To further
increase access speed and support millions of requests per minute,
Amazon S3 Express One Zone stores data in a new bucket type—an
Amazon S3 directory bucket. Customers have always been able to
choose a specific AWS Region to store their Amazon S3 data. Now,
within an AWS Region, customers can choose to collocate their
Amazon S3 Express One Zone data in the same AWS Availability Zone
as their compute resources for their most demanding workloads,
which helps them lower compute costs and run workloads faster.
Amazon S3 Express One Zone allows performance-critical
applications, such as query-intensive analytics, to achieve
single-digit millisecond data access speed with high durability and
availability, while reducing request costs by up to 50% compared to
Amazon S3 Standard, and reducing compute costs by up to 60%. For
example, data analysts often query petabytes of data, and the speed
of processing data is important to make timely business decisions.
With Amazon S3 Express One Zone, data lake queries complete up to
four times faster because data access speed is up to 10 times
faster than Amazon S3 Standard, decreasing the workload time for
analytics, so data analysts can derive insights and make decisions
quicker. Amazon S3 Express One Zone enables customers to scale
their storage up or down, and they no longer need to manage
multiple storage systems for low latency workloads because their
applications access data through the same Amazon S3 APIs used
today.
“Millions of customers rely on Amazon S3 for everything from
low-cost archival storage to petabyte-scale data lakes, and they
want to expand their use to support their most
performance-intensive applications where every millisecond counts,”
said James Kirschner, general manager of Amazon S3 at AWS. “Amazon
S3 Express One Zone delivers the fastest data access speed for the
most latency-sensitive applications and enables customers to make
millions of requests per minute for their highly accessed datasets,
while also reducing request and compute costs.”
With just a few clicks, customers can create a new Amazon S3
directory bucket and either upload new objects directly into the
Amazon S3 directory bucket they created or copy objects from
existing datasets in other Amazon S3 storage classes using Amazon
S3 Batch Operations in the AWS Management Console. Amazon S3
Express One Zone supports Amazon S3 features, including Mountpoint
for Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Server-Side Encryption, and Amazon S3
Block Public Access, as well as AWS services, such as Amazon EMR,
Amazon Redshift, Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon Bedrock. Amazon S3
Express One Zone is generally available in the US East (N.
Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific
(Tokyo), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming
soon.
ChaosSearch, a leader in data analytics, provides solutions that
empower businesses to make data-driven decisions with unparalleled
efficiency. “Our uniqueness lies in our native Amazon S3 data lake,
facilitating SQL, search, and large language model-based queries,”
said Thomas Hazel, founder and chief technology officer at
ChaosSearch. “We already benefit from Amazon S3’s unmatched
scalability, durability, availability, and security, and now it’s
supercharged for high-performance analytics at scale. With Amazon
S3 Express One Zone, we get rapid time to insight with 60% faster
queries and substantial cost savings through lower query
costs—without any code modifications.”
Cloudera delivers a hybrid data platform with secure data
management and analytics to customers across industries around the
world. “Customers use our platform to provide an open data
lakehouse to get business value from all their data using AI and
data analytics,” said Jim Clark, vice president of Product
Management at Cloudera. “With Amazon S3 Express One Zone’s data
access speed alone, Cloudera customers can achieve up to 40% faster
read and write performance, driving faster insights and value from
their data. We are actively working to support Amazon S3 Express
One Zone across Cloudera to improve performance and lower our
customers’ cloud infrastructure costs.”
Colorfront develops high performance digital processing
technologies for the motion picture industry. “Colorfront
integrates a high-performance GPU architecture with Amazon S3
Express One Zone to deliver accelerated processing to transcode,
decode, convert, and wrap files to various high-end formats,” said
Brandon Heaslip, director of Solutions Engineering at Colorfront.
“With Amazon S3 Express One Zone’s single-digit millisecond data
access speed, Colorfront customers can accelerate their digital
video processing by up to 70% to meet diverse media and
entertainment demands for streaming delivery while maintaining
digital video standards.”
Pinterest is the visual inspiration platform where over 480
million people come each month to search, save, and shop the best
ideas in the world. Pinterest leverages advanced machine learning
models to analyze billions of objects and personalize
recommendations for each of its users. "Machine learning is at the
heart of Pinterest and is powered by large scale ML training log
collection. To accelerate data ingestion and distribution at
Pinterest, we developed MemQ, an ultra-efficient open source PubSub
system that powers all our ML training data and leverages Amazon S3
for supercharging data pipelines at tens of GBps while staying
cost-efficient," said Ambud Sharma, technology lead, Data
Engineering at Pinterest. “During our evaluation of the Amazon S3
Express One Zone storage class with MemQ, we saw latency
improvements of over 10 times while increasing our data processing
transactions per second. Based on this order of magnitude
performance improvement, Amazon S3 Express One Zone allows us to
enable higher velocity data consumption and more frequent
experimentations, while significantly reducing infrastructure
costs. Amazon S3 Express One Zone is creating a paradigm shift
making cloud applications more performant, scalable, flexible, and
efficient."
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