Use Cases of Amazon S3 2025

Overview

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

Rating: 9 out of 10

April 29, 2025

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We use s3 buckets for having terraform state file management, keeping cloudwatch log group logs, keeping website static content, keeping cost optimization reports. The s3 buck...

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Consultant

6 years of experience

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

Rating: 8 out of 10

April 29, 2025

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At my organization, we primarily use Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) as a catch all storage solution. In particular, we have built our entire data lake around it, so we hav...

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Employee

8 years of experience

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

Rating: 9 out of 10

April 27, 2025

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We utilize Amazon S3 in multiple ways, a few of which are listed below: 1. Hosting static websites, React or Angular application builds, and exposing them using AWS CloudFront...

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Manager

5 years of experience

Great storage engine for all your AWS needs

Rating: 8 out of 10

June 17, 2024

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We are using Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) as our main storage for static files, saved reports, and short and long-term backups. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) has ma...

Nir Levy

Executive - Engineering

VP R&D DevOps and Products

Zoomd Technologies

15 years of experience

The best cloud option for object storage!

Rating: 9 out of 10

June 17, 2024

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We leverage Amazon S3 capabilities to a multitude of scenarios. We store audio recording files for our application, we use it as a storage backend for our vault application an...

Fabricio Zubelli

Engineer - Engineering

DevOps Engineer

Kea

2 years of experience

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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

Data Center Backup

Data center backup tools send data to a secure storage location after encryption and de-duplication

8.9

Avg 8.3

8.8
Universal recovery
(10) Ratings
Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform
8.2
Instant recovery
(10) Ratings
Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly
8.4
Recovery verification
(7) Ratings
Recovery verification is automated testing and verification of backups
8.6
Business application protection
(7) Ratings
Protection of all applications running in the data center
8.9
Multiple backup destinations
(10) Ratings
Multiple backup destinations is the ability to backup data to more than one location
9.2
Incremental backup identification
(4) Ratings
Incremental backup identification is the ability to identify incremental changes since last backup
9.1
Backup to the cloud
(11) Ratings
Ability to store and back up data to the cloud
8.8
Deduplication and file compression
(5) Ratings
Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities
9.2
Snapshots
(7) Ratings
Ability to take regular snapshots to ensure that Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is met
9.2
Flexible deployment
(11) Ratings
Deployment on any servers with full support for all applications being used
7.9
Management dashboard
(10) Ratings
Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups
8.8
Platform support
(10) Ratings
Product supports multiple operating systems and applications
9.7
Retention options
(7) Ratings
Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting
9.7
Encryption
(8) Ratings
Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up

Enterprise Backup

Enterprise backup solutions are implemented by IT professionals to automatically and safely backup data hosted on a range of systems (including cloud-native workloads, servers, databases, laptops and mobile devices) to external cloud storage.

8.7

Avg 8.2

9.5
Continuous data protection
(10) Ratings
Data is backed up every time a change is made, and the system can be restored to any previous saved version
9
Replication
(10) Ratings
Exact copies of the system are created and can be restored
8.2
Operational reporting and analytics
(11) Ratings
The product provides insights and analytics to help keep data secure
8.5
Malware protection
(4) Ratings
Data is protected in the event of a malware attack
9.2
Multi-location capabilities
(11) Ratings
The product be deployed and managed across multiple separate locations
8
Ransomware Recovery
(1) Ratings
The ability to recovery data in a timely manner after a ransomware attack

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Product Details

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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.

Amazon S3 Technical Details

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

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 29, 2025

Verified User

Employee in Engineering

Consumer Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

8 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At my organization, we primarily use Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) as a catch all storage solution. In particular, we have built our entire data lake around it, so we have “raw layer” buckets, “clean layer” buckets and so on. There are of course other uses, such as simple “data dump” buckets but in general we aim to use Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) as our main storage solution.

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

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 27, 2025

Verified User

Manager in Research & Development

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

5 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize Amazon S3 in multiple ways, a few of which are listed below: 1. Hosting static websites, React or Angular application builds, and exposing them using AWS CloudFront. 2. Storing media files like images, PDF, DOC files, and various other formats. 3. Backing up databases. 4. Storing debug and audit logs, which are historical. 5. Setting up serverless triggers using Lambda for lengthy, time-consuming processes.

Amazon S3

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 29, 2025

Verified User

Consultant in Engineering

Information Technology & Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

6 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use s3 buckets for having terraform state file management, keeping cloudwatch log group logs, keeping website static content, keeping cost optimization reports. The s3 bucket are helpful because it can hold any type of object and which can be automatically deleted whenever it is not required using the lifecycle management.

Great storage engine for all your AWS needs

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 17, 2024

Nir Levy

VP R&D DevOps and Products

Zoomd Technologies (Information Technology Services, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

15 years of experience

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) as our main storage for static files, saved reports, and short and long-term backups. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) has many different storage types that allow us to optimize our data storage spend quite well, but unfortunately not to the fullest. With the built in web access, and good integration with CloudFront we are also able to serve media to the world with a simple and low-cost solution. Having file-level access control is also a major plus that we utilize often.

The best cloud option for object storage!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 17, 2024

Fabricio Zubelli

DevOps Engineer

Kea (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

2 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We leverage Amazon S3 capabilities to a multitude of scenarios. We store audio recording files for our application, we use it as a storage backend for our vault application and we also use it to store analytics data for Redshift to consume from. Amazon S3 is always something we look at when solving business problems that requires storing data because of its ease of use and scalability with affordable price. it is also easy to share data externally and to integrate with applications. It provides reliable storage scalability for analytics and business data as well.

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