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Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec

VP, Technology, Data & Analytics

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‘The bottom turtle’: Amazon’s storage workhorse is getting an AI upgrade

When Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec joined Amazon Web Services more than a decade ago, the company’s Simple Storage Service, better known as S3, was a humble online bucket for photos, logs and the occasional startup backup. Today it houses exabytes of corporate treasure, and Bukovec (pictured), now vice president for data and analytics, is busy teaching that bucket to think.“Every AI application is a data application,” she tells me inside a glass conference room at AWS’s Seattle Re:Invent headquarters. “Your bottom turtle is always going to be the data — and the world’s data is in S3

AWS S3 steps beyond storage to power AI’s next wave

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s S3, Simple Storage Service, has evolved from simply being a durable and scalable storage solution to a fundamental layer driving innovation across AI, analytics and data infrastructure.TheCUBE’s John Furrier talks with AWS’ Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec about S3 advancements.Following the rise of generative AI and the convergence of structured, unstructured and semi-structured data, S3 now powers a modern AI-first infrastructure that’s redefining the enterprise technology stack

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Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, AWS

Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec

VP, Technology, Data & Analytics AWS

In this AWS Mid-Year Leadership Summit segment, Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, vice president of technology, data and analytics at AWS, joins theCUBE’s John Furrier in Seattle for a Halftime Report on where S3, S3 Tables and metadata services are steering the cloud giant’s data strategy. Tomsen Bukovec explains why “every AI application is now a data application” and how Iceberg-powered S3 Tables are giving customers a zero-migration path to agent-ready data lakes. She also unpacks her expanded remit, which unites Redshift, Athena, file services and streaming to mak... Read more

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