Amazon S3 Access Points, Redshift enhancements, UltraWarm preview for Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Managed Apache Cassandra Service among the announcements in Las Vegas.

S3 Access Points gets around that by allowing users to add access points as they add applications or teams, making it easier to keep policies specific and easier to manage.

Amazon this morning announced S3 Access Points, which makes it easier for Amazon Web Services customers to manage access for apps using shared services.

Amazon recommends in its documentation that in order to ensure all S3 access points, buckets, and objects have their public access blocked, all four settings should be turned on.

You may be wondering what, exactly, an Amazon S3 bucket is. The short and simplified answer is that it's a virtual storage unit where some companies pay to keep their data. But more on that in a bit.

Said Amazon, "Already customers of S3 Intelligent-Tiering have realised cost savings up to 40% and now using the new archive access tiers they can reduce storage costs up to 95% for rarely ...