FAQs On the Amazon S3 – Storage Classes
1. Amazon Storage Classes Pricing
Depending on the type of storage classes the pricing will be varied.
- S3 Standard: Storage cost $0.00059 per GB per month
- S3 Intelligent-Tiering: Storage cost $0.00012 per GB per month
- S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (IA): Storage Cost $0.00063 per GB per month
- S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (IA): $0.00048 per GB per month
2. Amazon S3 Storage Classes Are Optimized For Archival Data
Yes, data that is viewed infrequently can be stored on Amazon S3 Glacier storage category. Compared to other S3 storage classes, these classes have greater retrieval times but have the lowest storage costs.
3. AWS S3 Storage Classes Lifecycle
When objects are no longer commonly accessed, S3 Lifecycle can be used to control their lifecycle and lower storage costs by moving them to less expensive storage classes.
- S3 Standard
- S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (IA)
- S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (IA)
- S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
- S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
- S3 Glacier Deep Archive
Amazon S3 – Storage Classes
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is used for storing data in the form of objects S3 is quite different from any other file storage device or service. Amazon S3 also provides industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. The data which is uploaded by the user in S3, that data is stored as objects and provided an ID. Moreover, they store in shapes like buckets and can upload a maximum file size of 5 terabytes (TB). This service is basically designed for the online backup and archiving of data and applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS).