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AWS S3

S3 Storage Classes

  • S3 Standard
  • S3 Infrequently Accessed (IA)
  • S3 One Zone - IA
  • S3 Intelligent Tiering
  • S3 Glacier
  • S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Features

  • Tiered Storage Available
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Versioning
  • Encryption
  • MFA Delete
  • Secure your data using Access Control Lists (ACLs) and Bucket Policies

Tips

  • Not suitable to install an OS on
  • Successful uploads will generate an HTTP 200 status code
  • You can turn on MFA (Multi-factor Authentication) Delete
  • Remember that S3 is object-based (i.e. it allows you to upload / store files)
  • Files can be from 0 bytes to 5TB
  • There is effectively unlimited storage
  • Files are stored in buckets
  • S3 is a universal namespace meaning names must globally unique

Transfer Acceleration

  • AWS S3 Transfer Acceleration enables fast, easy, and secure transfer of files over long distances between your end users and an S3 bucket. Transfer Acceleration takes advantage of Amazon CloudFront's globally distributed edge locations. As the data arrives at an edge location, data is routed to Amazon S3 over an optimized network path.