Overview#
AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is Amazon Web Service that provides object storage system and is described better by Amazon S3
AWS Simple Storage Service is a generally considered to be a Data-lake
AWS Simple Storage Service storage Classifications#
AWS Simple Storage Service offers four different DataStore Classifications that offer different levels of durability, availability, and performance requirements.- Amazon S3 Standard is the default class.
- Amazon S3 Standard Infrequent Access (IA) is designed for less frequently accessed data. Typical use cases are backup and disaster recovery solutions.
- Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access is designed for data that is not often needed but when required, needs to be accessed rapidly.
- Amazon Glacier is designed for long-term storage of data that is infrequently accessed and where retrieval latency of minutes or hours is acceptable.