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4 Jun 2026 8 min

Amazon S3 Explained: Storage, Classes and Best Practices

How Amazon S3 storage classes differ — minimum storage duration, minimum billable size, retrieval time — and a four-question method for putting each dataset in the right class, with lifecycle and security defaults for a data-engineering bucket.

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GCPTrending
24 May 2026 10 min

Google Cloud Storage: Buckets, Classes and Best Practices

Google Cloud Storage holds the raw files of almost every data platform on Google Cloud. This guide covers buckets and naming, choosing a location, the storage classes with their minimum durations and retrieval fees, lifecycle rules and how conflicts between them are resolved, soft delete, and access control.

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GCP
6 May 2026 9 min

Cloud Storage to BigQuery: Building an Ingestion Layer

An ingestion layer is the agreement between whoever delivers files and whoever queries tables. This guide designs one from Cloud Storage to BigQuery: a bucket layout BigQuery can read, one partition per day, loads that can be repeated without duplicates, a guard against misplaced rows, and a per-file audit.

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Azure Data Factory
6 May 2026 11 min

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Explained

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is Blob Storage with a hierarchical namespace switched on. This guide explains what that one setting changes, how role assignments and access control lists are evaluated together, with a model checked against Microsoft's own table, and how to lay out folders, files and tiers.

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AWS
6 May 2026 7 min

S3 vs EBS vs EFS: AWS Storage Compared

S3, EBS and EFS are three different kinds of storage: objects reached over an API, a disk attached to one server, and a file system shared by many. This comparison explains how each is accessed, what it can and cannot do, how it scales and is billed, and which suits a data lake, a database, or shared working files.

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AWS
6 May 2026 7 min

S3 Lifecycle Policies and Storage Cost Savings

S3 Lifecycle rules move objects to cheaper storage classes and delete them on a schedule. This guide explains transition and expiration actions, builds a three-rule configuration for a data lake bucket with boto3, and sets out the charges that catch people out: small objects, minimum durations, versions and archives.

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