Amazon Simple Storage Services

Amazon S3:

A simple cloud storage services that is highly available . Objects (files) which can be made public or private are stored in buckets(directories) . S3 holds unlimited storage that can store millions of objects per bucket.

Features

1. Security: S3 offers protection for each of the bucket levels or objects level. Security at the buckets level or objects level can be set using access control lists (ACLs), bucket policies, or access point policies.

2. S3 access log: This is used to track access to the buckets and objects.

3. Multiple Version: This feature can be enable to prevent accidental deletion of files by creating multiple versions of the files.

4. Durability and Availability: These are the most important aspects of Amazon S3 which the files or objects are never compromised or lost and quick access to the files when required at the needed time.

S3 Storage Classes:

1. S3 Standard
2. S3 Intelligent-Tiering
3. S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (IA)
4. S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (IA)
5. S3 Glacier
6. S3 Glacier Deep Archive
7. S3 Outposts