Amazon S3
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Amazon.com | |
URL | aws |
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IPv6 support | Yes |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Required (included in free tier layer) |
Launched | March 14, 2006 |
Current status | Active |
Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface.[1][2] Amazon S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its e-commerce network.[3] Amazon S3 can store any type of object, which allows uses like storage for Internet applications, backups, disaster recovery, data archives, data lakes for analytics, and hybrid cloud storage. AWS launched Amazon S3 in the United States on March 14, 2006,[1][4] then in Europe in November 2007.[5]
Technical details
Design
Amazon S3 manages data with an
Amazon S3 storage classes
Amazon S3 offers nine different storage classes with different levels of durability, availability, and performance requirements.[16]
- Amazon S3 Standard is the default. It is general purpose storage for frequently accessed data.
- Amazon S3 Express One Zone is a single-digit millisecond latency storage for frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. It stores data only in one availability zone.[17]
- Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (Standard-IA) is designed for less frequently accessed data, such as backups and disaster recovery data.
- Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (One Zone-IA) performs like the Standard-IA, but stores data only in one availability zone.
- Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering moves objects automatically to a more cost-efficient storage class.
- Amazon S3 on Outposts brings storage to installations not hosted by Amazon.
- Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is a low-cost storage for rarely accessed data, but which still requires rapid retrieval.
- Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval is also a low-cost option for long-lived data; it offers 3 retrieval speeds, ranging from minutes to hours.
- Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive is the lowest cost storage for long-lived archive data that is accessed less than once per year and is retrieved asynchronously.
The Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes above are distinct from
File size limits
An object in S3 can be between 0 bytes and 5TB. If an object is larger than 5TB, it must be divided into chunks prior to uploading. When uploading, Amazon S3 allows a maximum of 5GB in a single upload operation; hence, objects larger than 5GB must be uploaded via the S3 multipart upload API.[18]
Uses
Notable users
- Photo hosting service SmugMug has used Amazon S3 since April 2006. They experienced a number of initial outages and slowdowns, but after one year they described it as being "considerably more reliable than our own internal storage" and claimed to have saved almost $1 million in storage costs.[19]
- Netflix uses Amazon S3 as their system of record. Netflix implemented a tool, S3mper,[20] to address the Amazon S3 limitations of eventual consistency.[21] S3mper stores the filesystem metadata: filenames, directory structure, and permissions in Amazon DynamoDB.[22]
- Reddit is hosted on Amazon S3.[23]
- Bitcasa,[24] and Tahoe-LAFS-on-S3,[25] among others, use Amazon S3 for online backup and synchronization services. In 2016, Dropbox stopped using Amazon S3 services and developed its own cloud server.[26][27]
- Swiftype's CEO has mentioned that the company uses Amazon S3.[28]
S3 API and competing services
The broad adoption of Amazon S3 and related tooling has given rise to competing services based on the S3
History
Amazon Web Services introduced Amazon S3 in 2006.[31][32]
Date | Number of Items Stored |
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October 2007 | 10 billion[33] |
January 2008 | 14 billion[33] |
October 2008 | 29 billion[34] |
March 2009 | 52 billion[35] |
August 2009 | 64 billion[36] |
March 2010 | 102 billion[37] |
April 2013 | 2 trillion[38] |
March 2021 | 100 trillion[39] |
In November 2017 AWS added default encryption capabilities at bucket level.[40]
See also
- Amazon Elastic Block Storage(EBS)
- Timeline of Amazon Web Services
References
Citations
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