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What is Amazon S3?
Amazon S3 is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It's key features are storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) Review
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Storage, yes, but simple. Not for everyone.
It's simple. That's the point.
Amazon S3 offers a cost effective, redundant storage solution to put your mind at ease!
Great for archive data & web apps via API
Amazon S3 - Storage as far as the eye can see; and then further
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) - A Highly Economical, Simple and Easy-to-Use Data Store with Amazing Features
best storage to use comfortably
Simple to use but errors may lead to wrong conclusions
We are happy with AWS S3
S3 is the best choice for asset hosting, from client assets through to your entire website frontend.
Review of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
S3 stores any kind of object you want!
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What is Amazon S3?
Amazon S3 is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It's key features are storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.
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What is Amazon S3?
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It offers scalability, data availability, security, and performance. It provides great utility for storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.
It is suitable for businesses or organizations of any size to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics. Amazon S3 provides management features for organizing data and configuring access controls to meet business, organizational, and compliance requirements.
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The only time Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is less appropriate is when working with on prem workloads. To have EC2 or another AWS service reach back on prem to get or put data is simply an inefficient architecture.
10+ years of experience with Amazon S3
Storage, yes, but simple. Not for everyone.
It's simple. That's the point.
Serving images and static content via s3 works very well and provides smoke performance (and can be coupled with CloudFront for distribution if necessary). Do not treat s3 like a general-purpose key-value store. Do not try to coordinate or create consensus using s3.
Amazon S3 offers a cost effective, redundant storage solution to put your mind at ease!
Transferring data into Amazon S3 is free but transferring data out has an associated, albeit low, cost per GB. This needs to be kept in mind if you plan on transferring out a lot of data frequently. There may be other cost effective options although Amazon S3 prices are really low per GB. Transferring 150TB would cost approximately $50 per month.
Great for archive data & web apps via API
I also use it a lot with PHP via the API. We have some custom in-house applications that have a fair amount of data uploaded into them. S3 has been a perfect solution to store these files, taking the load off web servers and never having issues with running out of storage.
- We use S3 as an entry point (landing zone for data). We can then transform (normalize) the data and store it again.
- S3 has great services built around automating tasks to be done when an object is updated/created/deleted.
- S3 has built-in replication for back up and disaster recovery.
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) - A Highly Economical, Simple and Easy-to-Use Data Store with Amazing Features
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) shouldn't be used if you're looking for storage like RDBMS or NoSQL.
best storage to use comfortably
Simple to use but errors may lead to wrong conclusions
We are happy with AWS S3
S3 is the best choice for asset hosting, from client assets through to your entire website frontend.
Review of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
S3 stores any kind of object you want!
S3 is a must!
Its less appropriate when you need speed to access files. It's not slow, but depending of the speed you need, it's not recommended, yet, cause they're always improving.
Amazon S3 lives up to the name simple storage service
Amazon S3 is reliable and good value
S3 Storage is the only way to go
It's great for storage of files you need to keep for regulatory purposes but will likely never need to access again.
I personally store all my music/photography files on AWS so it's almost impossible to every lose them
One of the best cloud storage services
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is what you are looking for if you require to host static files. That includes serverless websites, images, videos, etc.
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is not suited for web sites that run on a backend (Django, ASP.NET web forms, etc.) because it does not run any server for them to execute.