Amazon S3

Each input/output over a certain amount is charged so s3 is not useful as a mounted drive or frequently accessed storage. S3 is great for low I/O storage.

It's very well suited if the data being generated by those specific applications is very very large and at a petabyte scale. The reason to choose S3 is very simple and to the point and that is because not only for the fact AWS S3 is a cheaper solution to store such a huge volume of data, but, it's durable, scalable and highly available. Even with the simultaneous loss of 2 data centers, we need not worry that our data is lost. It's a best bet for startups who do not want to invest in the infrastructure.

S3 is well suited for anyone that wants to store data in the "cloud" and not be so expensive. This is beneficial for individuals that have a lot of data to store.

S3 is very cheap and is easy to set up if you are already on AWS. It integrates with virtually every AWS service and has very good documentation in terms of setting it up, implementing distributed web applications, and operationally keeping your costs low. If you have data that has complex business logic and workflows, S3 is able to support various requirements with lifecycle policies. S3 also has different storage tiers that are priced at different rates to enable business continuity and allow mission critical applications the SLA's they demand while pushing non-mission critical applications to lower tiers.

S3 may not be suitable if you are on another cloud platform like GCE or Azure. In that case, it might be better to use their distributed file system. However, S3 has an open API and is able to work in a hybrid-cloud environment if need be.

S3 is excellent for storing and serving static, media, and uploaded files. Keep your JS, CSS, and images there, as well as user-uploaded images and documents and app-generated documents, and then serve them through configuration in your scalable applications. Elastic Beanstalk and Lambda play very well with S3. If you grow to especially large scale, start managing the regions of your S3 buckets for optimal cloud service.

Amazon Simple Storage Service is simply the leader for long-term persistent storage for anything. It's very simple to use and access anything that you would like to save in the cloud. It allows us to save static assets, images and other content, software build artifacts, and database backups. We would be pretty lost without something that powerful to use.

Very suited to legal environments where document versioning is key. Not suited to situations where file creation date is critical.

Well suited for cheap, multi-zone storage for large files. It's also very widely used as a CDN by popular companies. It could also be used as a static web server, though I don't have much experience with it. It also has a robust API, so integrating S3 programmatically is straight forward.

Less suited for non-tech savvy users who wanted to use the UI mostly for modifying files. There are other cloud storage tools like Dropbox that provide better integrations with mobile and it has an intuitive front end.

You have to make sure that using S3 Storage fits your business application needs. For us it is a great method for Backup Storage and overflow Storage. You must rely on yourself to provide the testing to your applications and requirements. There is no one size fits all. But AWS S3 is a great solution to try to fit into your environment.

S3 is really well suited for data storage supporting most modern software solutions. Modern technology demands far more scalability than has been available in the past, and the distributed nature of the AWS ecosystem supports these demands quite nicely. On the flipside, it is often easier to "hit the ground running" with more of an in-house, single-server approach to software applications.

S3 is an excellent service for website and web application hosting for those willing to take the time to learn the complexities of AWS and want complete control over content, implementation and security. It also does well as a backup and storage mechanism, and hosting software files to be available to download. If what you are after is a quick and easy way to get a site up and running and you are not about to write the code for that site yourself, then you are probably looking for another solution that includes site-building tools, such as Squarespace.

Irrespective of the work that you that you do, if you want to store data in different formats or any format of your choice, I guess S3 is the solution. You can store and retrieve the data in your desired format without any hassle.

Well suited for:

• Backup
• Image/Upload Repositories
• Lambda Storage
• Media Hosting
• File Delivery (customer downloads)
• Anything where files need lifecycle management

I feel S3 is best used by a company looking to primarily use it as a safe and secure location to store high-availability data, leaving the additional services as an option for future expansions. Myself, and several other cloud architects I have spoken with have shared another scenario that fits S3, and other AWS services quite well, which is a startup using the free-tier with the Activate program. If done correctly, several S3 capabilities can be employed to offload tasks from underpowered virtual servers, letting the entire system become faster and more reliable.

it is great for backup. I would like to have an easy way to move from s3 to cloudwatch logs without having to write lambda code

Amazon S3 is best suited when you're already using an AWS stack or thinking about moving toward it. It is a reliable and high throughput storage that you will be using in the back of a lot of other Amazon tools such as EMR and RedShift. However, if what you need is a cheaper and a more longer-term storage, you might want to take a look at Amazon Glacier.

The one thing that I find is the GETs. I understand that the requirement is to help clients move to the cloud but being able to pull down data from the cloud without incurring too high of a cost would be nice. For example, maybe if there's predictive analytics that says "hey, you're pulling down (GET) a 10GB file, your estimated cost is X would be nice. Just overall predictive analytics is a cool thing to have, I understand that there is already that feature within the current solution but more would make Amazon a real powerhouse.