What is Amazon Simple Storage Service?
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, web-based cloud storage service designed for online backup and archiving of data and applications. It offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
Key features of Amazon S3 include:
- Store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web
- Scales to store up to hundreds of petabytes of data with no limit on object sizes
- Designed for 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability
- Provides comprehensive security and compliance capabilities
- Query-in-place functionality enables you to run powerful analytics directly on your data at rest in Amazon S3
- Integrates with a wide variety of third-party tools and AWS services
- Compatible with various computing platforms such as PCs, servers, and mobile devices
- Low cost, pay-as-you-go pricing with no minimum fee or setup cost
Amazon S3 is used by companies of all sizes across all industries for a wide variety of use cases including data lakes, cloud-native applications, backup & recovery, archive, data distribution, IoT devices, media hosting, mobile applications, software delivery, static website hosting, and more.
Azure Blob Storage, Exoscale, Sirv, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Storage, Brick FTP, Webzilla Instant Files, DreamObjects, SmartFile, Newfang, Choopa Cloud Storage, cloudscale.ch, Rackspace Cloud Files are some alternatives to Amazon Simple Storage Service.