Cloud Object Storage - Amazon S3

Object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere

What is Amazon S3?

 Amazon S3 is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

 Store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, cloud-native applications, backups, archive, machine learning, and analytics.

 Amazon S3 is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9's) of durability, and stores data for millions of customers all around the world.

Introduction to Amazon S3 (4:31)

Use Cases

Build a Data Lake

Run big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and high-performance computing (HPC) applications to unlock data insights.

Run Cloud-Native Applications

Build fast, powerful mobile and web-based cloud-native apps that scale automatically in a highly available configuration.

Backup and Restore Critical Data

Meet Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), and compliance requirements with S3’s robust replication features.

Archive Data at the Lowest Cost

Move data archives to the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes to lower costs, eliminate operational complexities, and gain new insights.

Amazon S3 on the Free Tier
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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

12 MONTHS FREE

5 GB
in the S3 Standard storage class

20,000 Get Requests

2,000 Put, Copy, Post, or List Requests
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Amazon S3
Secure, durable, and scalable object storage infrastructure.
12 MONTHS FREE

5 GB in the S3 Standard storage class

20,000 Get Requests

2,000 Put, Copy, Post, or List Requests

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Learn More About Amazon S3

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  • Customer Stories
  • The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Archives Technology and Services team needed a modern solution to centralize, digitize, and migrate its 100-year-old flagship archives. At peak, the team migrated 120 TB of data per day, using AWS Direct Connect to transfer sizable amounts of content to AWS. Within 10 months, the team had transferred 25 PB of data out to the cloud.

    As a global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, Carrier Global Corporation (Carrier) strives to advance sustainable, efficient building environments and help customers reduce their carbon footprints. On AWS, Carrier harnessed generative artificial intelligence (AI) to scale and enhance the functionality of Abound Net Zero Management.

    Many of the world’s largest and most complex organizations rely on Splunk to keep their mission-critical systems secure and reliable. With Amazon S3 Replication, Splunk can simplify its architectural design, bring products to market faster, and ensure that customers in highly regulated industries can onboard mission-critical workloads to Splunk Cloud.

    Roche uses bioinformatics, the combination of biomedical research with mathematical and computational sciences. Roche uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), an object storage service, to provide employees with a lifecycle policy that automatically archives data after a predetermined period. This has reduced storage costs by 90 percent compared with on-premises methods.

  • Videos
  • Getting started with Amazon S3 - Demo (7:37)
    Amazon S3 Data Protection Overview - Versioning, Object Lock, & Replication (7:41)
    Introduction to the Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering Storage Class (1:18)
    Introduction to the Amazon S3 Glacier Storage Classes (1:30)
  • Tutorials
  • 10-Minute Tutorials

    Start with these free and simple tutorials to explore Amazon S3

    Store and Retrieve a File with Amazon S3

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an Amazon S3 bucket, upload a file, retrieve the file and delete the file.

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    Hosting a Static Website Using Amazon S3

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to host a static website. We provide instructions and step-by-step walkthroughs on eight topics.

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    Batch Upload Files to the Cloud

    In this tutorial we will help you use the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) to access Amazon S3. You can easily build your own scripts for backing up your files to the cloud and easily retrieve them as needed.

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    Getting started using Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to optimize storage costs by automatically moving data to the most cost-effective access tier when access patterns change using Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering.

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    Getting started using the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes

    In this tutorial, you will learn how easy it is to begin storing your archive datasets at low cost with the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes.

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  • Training Courses
  • Free Digital Training Courses

    Getting Started with Amazon S3

    In this curriculum, you acquire the knowledge you need to start using Amazon S3 and review how Amazon S3 integrates with other services for specific use cases. You also gain practical hands-on experience through a self-paced lab.

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    Amazon S3 Storage Classes Deep Dive

    In this course, you learn about the storage classes available in Amazon S3 and to recognize the similarities and differences amongst the storage classes. You also learn to identify the optimal storage class to use for your workloads. 

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    Managing Amazon S3

    In this curriculum, you learn about the techniques that you can use to simplify management of your Amazon S3 storage. You also explore the tools available to monitor your Amazon S3 activity, storage, and performance trends.

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    Amazon S3 Cost Optimization

    In this course, you learn about the techniques you can use to optimize your Amazon S3 costs. You also explore the tools available to understand the costs associated with Amazon S3 and forecast future billing.

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