Object storage

Amazon S3 Metadata now available in six additional AWS Regions

Amazon S3 Metadata is now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Mexico (Central).

Announcing Blockchain Snapshots on AWS for node bootstrapping

For blockchain node operators running Ethereum or Solana, AWS is announcing Blockchain Snapshots on AWS, an initiative that publishes pre-synced public blockchain node chain data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) so you can bootstrap a node from a snapshot instead of…

Amazon S3 is now available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel

Amazon S3, including S3 Tables and S3 Vectors, is now available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel.

Storage Insights datasets include the Object Contexts Catalog view (object_contexts_catalog_view), which you can use to analyze object contexts in BigQuery.

Storage Insights datasets include the Object Contexts Catalog view ( object_contexts_catalog_view ), which you can use to analyze object contexts in BigQuery. For more information, see Object contexts catalog and Analyze object contexts.

Object contexts with extended data are available in Preview.

Google services attach these contexts to your objects during automated analysis, such as machine learning labeling. To retrieve a context and its extended data, use the viewFullContext JSON API method.

Object enrichments is now available in Preview.

When you configure object enrichments, Cloud Storage applies Google's pre-trained machine learning models to eligible images and PDF documents in your buckets and attaches the resulting metadata to your objects as object contexts.

Amazon S3 Express One Zone is now available in 4 additional AWS Regions

The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class is now available in 4 additional AWS Regions: Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Africa (Cape Town).

Amazon S3 Vectors metadata pre-filtering is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon S3 Vectors metadata pre-filtering is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Pre-filtering evaluates metadata filters before running similarity search, returning up to 5x more of the matching vectors when your filter is selective.

R2 bandwidth by Cloudflare location

You can now view R2 bandwidth by the Cloudflare location that served each request in the Cloudflare UI. This helps you see which locations consume the most bandwidth with options to select a specific bucket and download (read) vs upload (write) bandwidth.

Amazon S3 Object Lock variable retention with event holds is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon S3 Object Lock support for variable retention with event holds is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West).

Amazon S3 Tables now support up to 100 table buckets per AWS Region in an AWS account

Amazon S3 Tables now support up to 100 table buckets per AWS Region in an AWS account, increased from 10. This allows you to create up to 1 million tables per AWS Region in an AWS account.

Amazon S3 Vectors introduces metadata pre-filtering for up to 5x higher recall on filtered search

Amazon S3 Vectors now supports pre-filtering, which evaluates metadata filters before running similarity search, returning up to 5x more of the matching vectors when your filter is selective.

Amazon S3 Tables now support all Apache Iceberg V3 data types

Amazon S3 Tables add support for geometry, geography, unknown, and nanosecond timestamp data types, along with column default values, as defined in the Apache Iceberg Version 3 (V3) specification.

Cloud Storage client libraries now provide automated, end-to-end checksumming by default for object read and write operations to help maintain data integrity…

Cloud Storage client libraries now provide automated, end-to-end checksumming by default for object read and write operations to help maintain data integrity from client to storage. For more information, see data validation.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports AWS Graviton-based source servers

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports disaster recovery for AWS Graviton-based (arm64) source servers. You can now protect and recover your Graviton workloads with the same simple, reliable DRS experience you already use for x86 workloads.

R2 bandwidth usage metrics

New R2 product-level Metrics page in the Cloudflare dashboard shows bandwidth usage. You can view usage across all buckets or per bucket.

Amazon S3 Express One Zone is now available in 7 additional AWS Regions

The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class is now available in 7 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Singapore), South America (Sao Paulo), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Seoul).

Amazon ECS extends Amazon S3 Files support to the Amazon EC2 compute type

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports Amazon S3 Files for tasks running on the Amazon EC2 launch type, enabling customers to connect their containerized applications directly to data in Amazon S3 as a shared file system.

R2 Data Catalog adds table maintenance visibility and manual queueing

R2 Data Catalog now provides table-level maintenance visibility and manual compaction queueing in the Cloudflare dashboard.

AWS Lambda now supports direct read configuration for Amazon S3 Files

AWS Lambda now supports direct read configuration for Amazon S3 Files, letting you configure which storage your functions read from: S3 Files high-performance storage or your S3 bucket.