AWS S3 Overview & Best Practices

✍  π”Έπ•Žπ•Š π•ŠπŸ› Overview

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a cloud storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is an object storage service that allows users to store and retrieve large amounts of data, such as files, images, videos, and backups, from any location with an internet connection. S3 is designed for durability and scalability, allowing users to store and access an unlimited amount of data at low cost.Β 

S3 provides a simple web services interface, which enables developers to store and retrieve data using standard HTTP requests. Users can access their data using the S3 web interface, a command-line client, or through the AWS SDKs and APIs. S3 also supports a wide range of data management features, including versioning, lifecycle policies, and encryption. Additionally, S3 supports cross-region replication, which allows users to automatically replicate data to other AWS regions for added durability and disaster recovery.Β 

S3 is used in a wide range of applications, including backup and disaster recovery, big data analytics, mobile and gaming applications, and content distribution. It also provides a storage layer for many other AWS services, such as Elastic Block Store (EBS), Elastic File System (EFS), and Glacier. S3 comes with multiple storage classes that are design for different needs, cost and performance. They are S3 Standard, S3 Intelligent-Tiering, S3 Standard-IA, S3 One Zone-IA and S3 Glacier.

✍   S3 Characteristics and Features

β‘  Amazon S3 is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9s) of data durability.

β‘‘ AWS aims to provide scalability, high availability, and low latency with high durability and availability.

β‘’ AWS launched S3 in the United States in March 2006, and Europe in November 2007

β‘£ Amazon S3 operates the scalable storage infrastructure that amazon.com uses to run its e-commerce network.

β‘€ AWS S3 allowed choosing from supported checksum algorithms SHA-1, SHA-256, CRC32, or CRC32C.

β‘₯ Amazon declared that AWS S3 stored more than 100 trillion objects as of March 2021.

⑦ In 2017 AWS added default encryption capabilities at the bucket level.Β 

✍   S3 Types

Note : πŸ“‚ Amazon S3 Standard is the default one.

✍   Best practices of AWS S3

There are several best practices for using Amazon S3 effectively:

Use S3 Transfer Acceleration: This feature of S3 allow you to accelerate uploads and downloads to and from S3 by using Amazon CloudFront's globally distributed edge locations. This can be particularly useful for large data transfers or for data transfers over long distances.

✍  Related Services

πŸ”” All major cloud platforms also (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and Oracle Cloud ) provide these types of Object storage services.Β 

They are,

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