Amazon S3 is a web service that is offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon S3 stands for Amazon Simple Storage Service. It provides object storage with a simple web service interface to store and to retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. It offers maximum durability and is designed to scale past trillions of objects worldwide. Most of the consumers use S3 as primary storage for cloud-native applications. They use it as a bulk repository for analytics and also for back-up and recovery of data. Amazon S3 provides the consumers with serverless computing.
Amazon S3 makes it extremely simple to move large volumes of data either on or out. This becomes feasible with Amazon’s cloud data migration options. Once you have your data stored in S3, it can automatically be tiered into low-cost, longer-term cloud storage classes such as S3 Standard.
Amazon S3 is extremely simple to use. It comes with a web-based management console and a mobile app. You can also integrate it with third-party technologies as Amazon S3 provides you with full REST APIs and SDKs.
Amazon S3 has been designed to provide a durability of 99.99999% of objects. The data is redundantly stored across multiple facilities and also multiple devices in each facility.
Amazon S3 allows you to store as much data as you want. You can also access this data whenever you want. You can scale up or scale down your storage needs as required.
Data is transferred over SSL. Automatic encryption is done once uploaded. You can use AWS IAM to set object permissions and control access to your data.
Amazon S3 offers 99.99% availability of objects over a given year, backed by Amazon S3 Service Level Agreement.
Store huge amounts of data at a very low cost. Migrate to S3 standard infrequent access or Amazon Glacier to further reduce costs.
Move large volumes of data in or out easily and cost-effectively. Choose from network optimized, physical disk-based, or third party connector methods.
Deeply integrated with other AWS services, making it easy to build solutions using a range of AWS services like CloudFront, CloudWatch, RDS, Glacier, DynamoDB, Lambda, and more.
Store management features allow a data-driven approach to store optimization, data security, and management efficiency.