Features and Uses of S3(Simple Storage Service)

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Main features of S3

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Durability: Amazon S3 is designed to deliver 99.99999999% durability of objects over a given year.

Availability: The data in S3 is automatically distributed over a minimum of 3 physical availability zones. If one zone is unavailable, the data is still available in the other two zones by a replicated copy.

Scalability: S3 is managed by AWS and automatically scales up and down depending on the load.

Reliability: It is an extremely reliable service.

Fast: The multipart upload option enables you to upload large objects in parts.

Inexpensive: It is the most cost-efficient data storage and archived service.

Secure: Server-side encryption and Client-side encryption offers sophisticated integration with AWS CloudTrait to log,
monitor and retain storage API call activities.

Flexible Storage Management: Storage Administrators can classify reports and visualize the data usage trends to reduce cost and improve service levels.

Easy Interface for Data Transfer: It have a simple interface to download and retrieve data anytime and from anywhere on the web.

Easy Integration: It consists of thousands of consulting system integrators and is supported by an independent software vendorn partners.

Uses of S3:

Backup and Recovery: Versioning-enabled buckets enable you to recover objects from accidental deletion or overwrite.
Amazon S3 offers a highly durable, scalable, and secure destination for backing up and archiving your critical data.

Data Archiving: Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier provide a range of storage classes to meet the needs of compliance archives
for regulated industries or archives for regulated industries or active archive for the organization that need fast infrequent
access to archived data.

Data Lake for Big Data Analytics: Amazon S3 can be used as your data lake for big data analytics. It helps you manage big data by reducing costs while simultaneously scaling to meet the high demands.

Hybrid Cloud Storage: It helps you build hybrid cloud storage augmenting your existing load storage environment with the
durability and scale of Amazon S3.

Cloud-Native Application Data: S3 provides high-performance, highly available storage that makes it easy to scale and maintain
cost-effective mobile and Internet-based apps that run very fast. With S3 you can add any amount of content and access it from anywhere. So you can deploy applications faster and reach customers.

Disaster Recovery: S3's highly durable, secure, global infrastructure offers a robust disaster recovery solution designed to provide superior data protection.