Features of Amazon S3
- Durability: AWS claims Amazon S3 to have a 99.999999999% of durability (11 9’s). This means the possibility of losing your data stored on S3 is one in a billion.
- Availability: AWS ensures that the up-time of AWS S3 is 99.99% for standard access.
- Note that availability is related to being able to access data and durability is related to losing data altogether.
- Server-Side-Encryption (SSE): AWS S3 supports three types of SSE models:
- SSE-S3: AWS S3 manages encryption keys.
- SSE-C: The customer manages encryption keys.
- SSE-KMS: The AWS Key Management Service (KMS) manages the encryption keys.
- File Size support: AWS S3 can hold files of size ranging from 0 bytes to 5 terabytes. A 5TB limit on file size should not be a blocker for most of the applications in the world.
- Infinite storage space: Theoretically AWS S3 is supposed to have infinite storage space. This makes S3 infinitely scalable for all kinds of use cases.
- Pay as you use: The users are charged according to the S3 storage they hold.
Introduction to AWS Simple Storage Service (AWS S3)
AWS offers a wide range of storage services that can be configured depending on your project requirements and use cases. AWS comes up with different types of storage services for maintaining highly confidential data, frequently accessed data, and often accessed storage data. You can choose from various storage service types such as Object Storage as a Service(Amazon S3), File Storage as a Service (Amazon EFS), Block Storage as a Service (Amazon EBS), backups, and data migration options.
Table of Content
- What is Amazon S3?
- What is Amazon S3 Used for?
- What is an Amazon S3 bucket?
- How Does Amazon S3 works?
- How To Use an Amazon S3 Bucket?
- What are the types of S3 Storage Classes?
- How to Upload and Manage Files on Amazon S3?
- How to Access Amazon S3 Bucket?
- AWS S3 Bucket Permissions
- Features of Amazon S3
- Advantages of Amazon S3
- Amazon S3 – FAQs