Storing and Managing Documents with Amazon AWS: Feasibility, Costs, and Why Docupile Makes It Better

So, you’re thinking about using Amazon AWS to store and manage your documents? Smart move! AWS offers some of the best tools out there for document storage and retrieval.

AWS offers powerful services like Amazon Storage (S3) and Amazon Analytics Offerings (Athena, Glue, and Redshift) that can help you handle documents efficiently. But let’s not just talk about the “how”; let’s also discuss the expertise, time, and cost involved—and whether it might make sense to let a specialized service like Docupile handle it for you.

Jump to

Getting Started with AWS Storage and Analytics

Amazon AWS for document storage

Storing Your Documents with Amazon S3

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a top-tier storage option for storing files of any type—PDFs, images, logs, or scanned documents.

Managing and Querying Data with Amazon Analytics Offerings

Amazon Athena

Athena lets you run SQL queries directly on documents stored in S3, making it ideal for retrieving specific information from your files.

AWS Glue

Glue helps automate ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, cleaning and preparing document data for analysis in Athena or Redshift.

Amazon Redshift (Optional)

For more extensive analytics, Redshift serves as a high-performance data warehouse where structured data from your documents can be queried and analyzed.

Time and Expertise Requirements

Setting up and managing these services demands significant time and expertise. Tasks like creating metadata schemas, configuring workflows, and running queries require:

  • Cloud Engineers: For S3 setup and maintenance.
  • Data Engineers: For ETL pipelines and Glue configuration.
  • SQL Analysts: For creating and optimizing queries.
  • IT Administrators: For ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting.

Collectively, these roles take considerable hours upfront and on an ongoing basis.

High-Impact Document Management Without the Overhead

Let’s explore how Docupile’s features can replace the need for each of the following AWS analytics offerings, helping you simplify your operations while still gaining data insights.

Amazon Athena

Click to Download

AWS Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that analyzes data in Amazon S3 using SQL.

Amazon CloudSearch

Click to Download

AWS CloudSearch specializes in indexing and full-text search of large data collections.

Amazon EMR

Click to Download

Amazon EMR is a managed big data platform that supports data processing through frameworks like Hadoop and Spark.

Amazon FinSpace

Click to Download

AWS FinSpace is designed for complex financial analytics.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

Click to Download

Real-time data streaming with AWS Kinesis Data Firehose is useful in scenarios where there is continuous data usage.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Click to Download

For real-time data ingestion, AWS Kinesis Data Streams is a go-to.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

Click to Download

Kinesis Video Streams captures and stores video streams, which is useful for video data.

Amazon Apache Flink

Click to Download

Apache Flink enables real-time stream processing, which is powerful for data-heavy workflows.

Amazon Apache Kafka

Click to Download

For high-throughput streaming, Apache Kafka is widely used.

Amazon OpenSearch Service

Click to Download

OpenSearch supports powerful indexing for analytics.

Amazon QuickSight

Click to Download

QuickSight is a Business Intelligence tool that creates dashboards for data analysis

Amazon Redshift

Click to Download

Redshift is great for data warehousing.

AWS Data Exchange

Click to Download

For data exchange across entities, AWS Data Exchange is powerful but complex.

AWS Data Pipeline

Click to Download

AWS Data Pipeline orchestrates workflows.

AWS Glue

Click to Download

AWS Glue simplifies Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes for data integration.

AWS Lake Formation

Click to Download

AWS Lake Formation is useful for creating secure data lakes.

Discover Docupile in 15 minutes — Book Your Demo Now!

Schedule a 15-minute consultation.

Join to newsletter.

100% No Spam. We won’t share your email.

Get a personal consultation.

Call us today at (281) 942-4545

Smart Document Management System