What are the types of S3 Storage Classes?
AWS S3 provides multiple storage types that offer different performance and features and different cost structures.
- Standard: Suitable for frequently accessed data, that needs to be highly available and durable.
- Standard Infrequent Access (Standard IA): This is a cheaper data-storage class and as the name suggests, this class is best suited for storing infrequently accessed data like log files or data archives. Note that there may be a per GB data retrieval fee associated with the Standard IA class.
- Intelligent Tiering: This service class classifies your files automatically into frequently accessed and infrequently accessed and stores the infrequently accessed data in infrequent access storage to save costs. This is useful for unpredictable data access to an S3 bucket.
- One Zone Infrequent Access (One Zone IA): All the files on your S3 have their copies stored in a minimum of 3 Availability Zones. One Zone IA stores this data in a single availability zone. It is only recommended to use this storage class for infrequently accessed, non-essential data. There may be a per GB cost for data retrieval.
- Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS): All the other S3 classes ensure the durability of 99.999999999%. RRS only ensures 99.99% durability. AWS no longer recommends RRS due to its less durability. However, it can be used to store non-essential data.
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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