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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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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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June 28, 2021
It's simple. That's the point.
We store user-generated content, backups, raw event data, logs, and other raw data in S3. This data is used by our product in serving content to our users, by our operations team to maintain site availability, by our analytics teams, and by our developers to debug our production systems.
- Durability
- Easy access
- Interop with AWS products as well as third party vendors.
- Finding files in large buckets.
- Simplify permissions.
- More transparent compression.
December 07, 2019
Great for any organization at a reasonable cost
We use Amazon S3 storage to archive and store all of our data. S3 is being utilized by our entire organization and enables all of our satellite offices and remote users to access company data from a centralized geo-redundant location without the added cost of building out of our infrastructure.
- Centralized location for all your organizations data.
- Great 3rd party API and integration.
- Cost effective if properly monitored and maintained.
- Ease to use and set-up.
- Permissions can become complex.
- UI needs to be updated and looks dated.
- Tech support should be improved.
September 02, 2019
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Storage of audio files for distribution using Cloudfront content delivery network.
Restoration of databases from file to RDS.
Restoration of databases from file to RDS.
- It's good for working with files across the entire AWS ecosystem.
- It's good as a fast to set up source of large amounts of storage as needed for projects.
- It's good as a storage location for third party devices and services that need a place to store data, backups, etc.
- It is only object based storage. You can upload and download files. It is not like having a randomly accessible hard drive that you can host a live database on. There may be uses where S3 acting more like a randomly accessible hard drive would be useful.
- Integration between other areas of the AWS ecosystem can be a bit difficult to set up and use. For example, file-based SQL server restores into RDS instances.
- Some of the more complex functions need to be done by remote command line.
January 22, 2018
You know you're supposed to use S3. Just do it.
We use S3 for everything imaginable, but particularly for storing larger assets like images, video, isos or data files. This allows us to purchase much smaller nodes in terms of attached SSDs. The cost of S3 for storage is almost a non-issue for anything in the sub-terabyte range, especially when compared to the price of larger EC2, Rackspace, or digital ocean instances.
- Nearly every web framework now has integrations with the service as an easy plug-and-play storage solution.
- General integration is so good there are tons of third-party tools like Transmit (for mac) you can mount S3 as a remote disk for easy access, and even Amazon's own web portal for using S3 has gotten quite good.
- It's incredibly easy to offload all the expensive bandwidth operations for your typical website or app to S3, and, assuming your services are not yet HTTP2, you even get the benefits of sharding.
- There is no true hierarchical filesystem in S3. So for example, if you have a file like /images/pizza/1.png, and you delete 1.png it deletes the entire directory structure. Now many tools will place an empty dummy file at /images/pizza to make it appear as if the structure is there – but if you do these operations via api it can be a bit of a gotchya.
- The bucket namespace is global, so it can be really hard to get a sensible bucket name. Honestly no idea why they made that global.
- While you can serve S3 content at your own subdomain, you have to have the proper bucket name to do so and this can get pretty cumbersome. Ideally, there would be a better way to mask S3 buckets at a DNS level.
March 29, 2017
Why I am so impressed with Amazon Web Services!
We are using Amazon S3 for multiple clients and our own purposes.
S3 is a simple to use Cloud based storage product that is a secure, scale-able low cost approach for any organization that needs to have off site storage for the purposes of backup or retention, document storage and archiving. Good versioning control, secure access and an almost infinite ability to increase your storage effortlessly as your organization's needs grow. Amazon has a very easy to use interface and for users that are not very technically minded there are third party tools out there like Filezilla and S3 Fox that enable the upload and download of files in easy to use folders that anyone can feel comfortable with. Amazon S3 is also a very robust and safe storage of your files and documents as it has 99.999999999 %. Availability and your data is spread over multiple zones so that there is an as close to zero chance of data loss as is possible. I would thoroughly and unequivocally recommend Amazon S3 storage to businesses in any environment.
- Easy creation of Buckets that mimic what most people are familiar with like a folder on your desktop computer.
- Easy to use interface to upload, download or delete files.
- Secure and easy to control who has access to your information.
- Scale-able without committing to a fixed price over time.
- I think file dates on upload should reflect the date that the file was created on the original source, not the date that you uploaded it, or at least have that option.
- Drag and drop from your desktop would be a useful ability.
- Would be nice to be able to import directly from other clouds, like One Drive, Google Drive or Dropbox.
July 18, 2016
Simple, Reliable, Maintainable Storage - Amazon S3
My current company is still in the process of moving to the AWS stack, but my previous company already had a successful story using Amazon tools, including S3. It was used across the whole organization. Server logs and data from the MySQL database were replicated to S3, and from there, the data got processed by Mapreduce programs running on EMR, and eventually get stored in RedShift or Elasticsearch. S3 is also used as a fast and neat backup storage for RedShift and Elasticsearch.
- Easy-to-use command line interface and APIs.
- Great integration with other Amazon services.
- Secured. And access can be easily managed with IAM service.
- GUI is not user-friendly. I had to use a third party tool called S3Hub to do quick file downloads/uploads for testing.