File Mover Express: AWS Releases Open-Source Tool for S3 File Transfers

Renato Losio — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:32:00 GMT

AWS has recently released File Mover Express, an open-source application under the Apache 2.0 license for transferring large files between local systems and Amazon S3. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, it supports parallel transfers, automatic performance tuning, retries, pause and resume, and file integrity verification.

By Renato Losio

CSIRO Uses Serverless Architecture to Query 100x More Genomic Variants on AWS

Leela Kumili — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:30:00 GMT

CSIRO has developed Serverless Beacon, a serverless architecture for querying genomic variants without copying VCF files into a central database. The system combines Amazon S3, Lambda, Athena and DynamoDB, using metadata indexes and HTTP byte range requests to query compressed genomic regions. Tests reported 1.52 second average latency for 10,000 base pair queries.

By Leela Kumili

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File Mover Express: AWS Releases Open-Source Tool for S3 File Transfers

CSIRO Uses Serverless Architecture to Query 100x More Genomic Variants on AWS