Amazon S3
Object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere.
Overview
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics.
✨ Key Features
- Multiple storage classes for different access patterns (S3 Standard, S3 Intelligent-Tiering, S3 Glacier)
- Designed for 99.999999999% (11 9s) of durability
- Flexible security features including encryption and access control
- Lifecycle policies to automatically move data between tiers
- S3 Replication for data redundancy across regions
- S3 Batch Operations for managing objects at scale
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Industry-leading durability and availability
- Most comprehensive set of storage classes to optimize cost
- Deepest integration with other AWS services for analytics and machine learning
Unique Value: Provides virtually unlimited, highly durable, and low-cost object storage with deep integrations for building scalable applications.
🎯 Use Cases (5)
✅ Best For
- Storing application assets and user-generated content
- Archiving log files and compliance data
- Building a data lake for analytics with services like Athena and Redshift
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Storage for a file system to be mounted by an operating system (use Amazon EFS)
- Structured data that requires complex queries (use Amazon RDS or DynamoDB)
- Low-latency transactional block storage for EC2 instances (use Amazon EBS)
🏆 Alternatives
Offers more storage classes, more advanced security and compliance capabilities, and a larger ecosystem of third-party integrations than competitors.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Business, Enterprise tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
Free tier: 5GB of standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests per month for 12 months.
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