Amazon Storage (S3)

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object storage service that allows for storing, accessing and manipulating data in the cloud. Amazon S3 storage is a fundamental component for a multitude of workflow processing use cases. Being able to successfully manage these objects is essential for any automation success. This allows you to easily integrate the monitoring and management of this cloud storage with your existing enterprise workload automation solution, as well as other cloud-native activity. You are instantly inheriting the advanced capabilities of your enterprise solution to deliver your digital transformation quicker and more successfully. By extending your existing enterprise automation to AWS S3 Storage you maintain end-to-end visibility, regain centralized command and control, alerting, SLA management, reporting and auditing.

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Amazon Storage (S3)

Benefits and Use Cases

Schedule and execute file transfers to and from Amazon S3 to support data ingestion, archival, or distribution use cases.
Automate the movement of critical files across environments as part of end-to-end job chains.
Track file operations and transfer status in real time.
Leverage secure credential management and built-in retry logic to ensure reliable, policy-compliant file handling.

Example Use Case: Data Staging for Downstream Processing

Automate data staging to seamlessly trigger secure, validated S3 file transfers to and from your processing environments, accelerating downstream ETL, ML, and batch jobs while ensuring data integrity and instant failure remediation.

Automic Features

Monitor S3 objects for create, update or for existence
Schedule upload or download of S3 cloud storage objects
Delete S3 objects
Retrieve processing log for problem diagnosis
Alert on failure of S3 processing or if it is late
Create dependencies between S3 objects
Incorporate S3 objects in existing enterprise automation workflows including dependency enforcement