What is Amazon S3 Used for?
Amazon S3 is used for various purposes in the Cloud because of its robust features with scaling and Securing of data. It helps people with all kinds of use cases from fields such as Mobile/Web applications, Big data, Machine Learning and many more. The following are a few Wide Usage of Amazon S3 service.
- Data Storage: Amazon s3 acts as the best option for scaling both small and large storage applications. It helps in storing and retrieving the data-intensitive applications as per needs in ideal time.
- Backup and Recovery: Many Organizations are using Amazon S3 to backup their critical data and maintain the data durability and availability for recovery needs.
- Hosting Static Websites: Amazon S3 facilitates in storing HTML, CSS and other web content from Users/developers allowing them for hosting Static Websites benefiting with low-latency access and cost-effectiveness. To know more detailing refer this Article – How to host static websites using Amazon S3
- Data Archiving: Amazon S3 Glacier service integration helps as a cost-effective solution for long-term data storing which are less frequently accessed applications.
- Big Data Analytics: Amazon S3 is often considered as data lake because of its capacity to store large amounts of both structured and unstructured data offering seamless integration with other AWS Analytics and AWS Machine Learning Services.
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