Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) provides reliable, long-lasting, scalable storage. You can store and retrieve any amount of data at anytime from anywhere on the Internet through a simple web service interface. Amazon S3 can store, collect, and delete data containing 1 TB to 5 TB. Also, Amazon S3 is highly scalable, so a user can view or write data to many different clients or application streams at the same time. There are many ways to use the service, let us look at 4 of them.
Amazon S3 is used to store and distribute static media and web content. Content can be sourced directly from Amazon S3 as all files in Amazon S3 are unique and have their own HTML URL. For example, Amazon S3 can serve as storage for a Content Delivery Network (CDN) like Amazon CloudFront. The elasticity of Amazon S3 creates convenience for web hosting of content. Also, Amazon S3 is great for fast-growing websites containing rich user-generated content, video, or photo sharing since no storage reservations are required.
Amazon S3 is used to host the entire static website. Amazon S3 provides a scalable, highly available solution such as storing static HTML files, images, videos, and client-side scripts in a format such as JavaScript.
Many companies use Amazon S3 as a highly reliable, scalable, and secure solution for backing up and archiving mission-critical data.
Amazon S3 is used as a data warehouse for compute and large-scale analytics such as financial transaction analysis, traffic analysis, media transcoding, and more. Because of Amazon S3's horizontal scalability, you can retrieve data from multiple compute nodes without being limited to a single connection.
Amazon datacenters use specially engineered hardware and distributed file systems to scale infinitely. Also, Amazon S3 guarantees the safety of data. Any file is necessarily redundantly stored in several places at the same time. Once an object is in storage, S3 maintains its reliability by checking and, if necessary, increasing the missing data redundancy. In addition, S3 also regularly checks the integrity of the stored data. In case of emergencies, the integrity is restored again using the same redundant data.
Amazon S3 provides
Amazon S3 allows you to store data in S3 storage classes of various types:
S3 Standard - General Purpose
S3 Intelligent ‑ Tiering - Unknown or Variable Access Frequency
S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) - Infrequent access in different availability zones
S3 One Zone ‑ Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone ‑ IA) - Infrequent access in one AP
Amazon S3 Glacier (S3 Glacier) – Archive
Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive (S3 Glacier Deep Archive) - Archiving for long-term data retention
Each S3 storage class supports a specific level of data access at a corresponding cost. This means that critical production data can be stored in S3 Standard for frequent access, infrequently accessed data in S3 Standard-IA or S3 One Zone-IA to reduce costs and archive data with minimal costs in archive storage classes - S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
Today, Amazon S3 is essential for companies that are migrating their businesses to the cloud. Whether it is a small online store or a government-owned enterprise, AWS is suitable for businesses of all sizes. Services such as Amazon S3 provide the ability to have an affordable and scalable data warehouse with the ability to compute analytics, as well as analyze financial transactions, traffic, and more.