Amazon Simple Storage Service is a highly scalable and durable cloud storage service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It allows individuals and organizations to store and manage a wide variety of data, such as files, images, videos, and more, in the Amazon cloud. Amazon S3 is known for its reliability, security, and data recovery capabilities and is widely used worldwide to support web applications, store backups, host media content, and provide storage for a variety of business use cases. Data is organized into “buckets” and “objects” and can be accessed and managed through a web interface or APIs.
Use cases:
Build a data lake: Use Amazon S3 to create a data lake, a centralized repository for storing and managing large volumes of data. Run big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and high-performance computing (HPC) applications to unlock valuable insights from the data.
Back up and restore critical data: Leverage Amazon S3’s robust replication features to meet Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), and compliance requirements. Ensure the security and availability of critical data through effective backups and restores.
Archive data at the lowest cost: Transfer archival data to Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes to reduce costs, eliminate operational complexities, and gain new insights. This allows you to efficiently maintain archived data while still accessing valuable information when needed.
Run cloud-native applications: Develop high-performance, cloud-native mobile and web-based applications that can automatically scale in a highly available configuration. Amazon S3 provides the necessary infrastructure to build applications that efficiently scale in the cloud.
