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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 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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Features

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Product Details

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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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Retention options and Encryption highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of Amazon S3 are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) great use for a data lake implementation

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 29, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
8 years of experience
I believe that Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is perfect for a Data Lake implementation: this is because you can either have buckets per layer or you can organize layers in the prefix of a single bucket; either way, you have flexibility to organize your data as you prefer. I would not recommend it if your data strategy and naming convention changes often, as it’s not easily possible to move data from one bucket to another (and you cannot rename the existing one, which is probably one of the features I miss the most)

Unmatched scalable and reliable service for object storage easy to store access and manage data securely.

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 27, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
5 years of experience
If you're in an AWS environment, then S3 is the best storage service. Recently, we shifted some services to GCP, but we're still continuing to use S3 exclusively. Boto3 and S3FS are some of the best libraries. Can provide restricted access to objects using presigned URLs.

Amazon S3

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 29, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
6 years of experience
Keeping reports, cloudwatch log groups logs, emr artifacts, automatic backup keeping of platform data. The access control lists and bucket policies do provide ways to restrict the access to the bucket to certain teams which is helpful for production data. Also can be used to have multiple versions of an object which helps if some issue occurs in the latest release

Simple and Cost Effecitve

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 23, 2024
MC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
8 years of experience
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) Cloud Storage is simple to get up and running and is quite price competitive. It can be a bit cumbersome to get some things going, but the support knowledgebase is very helpful for getting past that. The interface also can be a bit daunting to a non-technical user.

Best multipurpose cloud storage

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 30, 2024
RG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
6 years of experience
Using Amazon S3 with other AWS database solutions such as Redshift permits that your data files can be stored at S3 and make it 'readable' using simple SQL queries (using Redshift Spectrum). This is the best usecase we found in order to store processed files and make them easy to consult.
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