AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)
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An AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is an managed enterprise-grade file cloud file hosting service that is an AWS public cloud storage service.
- Context:
- It can provide AWS S3 Data Buckets (that can store AWS S3 objects).
- It can provide AWS S3 Object Operations, such as S3 PUT, S3 GET, and S3 DELETE.
- It can be accessed via
s3cmd
(e.g.s3cmd --recursive get s3://bucketX/dirY/subdirZ .
) - It can be priced based on AWS S3 Pricing Schedule (likely based on S3 storage size, S3 object operation counts, ...
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: AWS EC2, AWS EMR HDFS, Online File Hosting Service, Cloud Storage, Representational State Transfer, SOAP.
REFERENCES
- http://aws.amazon.com/s3-sla/
- http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
- https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3 Retrieved:2017-12-15.
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides storage through web services interfaces (REST, SOAP, and BitTorrent). [1] Amazon launched S3 on its fifth publicly available web service, in the United States in March 2006 and in Europe in November 2007. Amazon says that S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its own global e-commerce network. [2] Amazon S3 is reported to store more than 2 trillion objects . [3] This is up from 10 billion as of October 2007, 14 billion in January 2008, 29 billion in October 2008, 52 billion in March 2009, [4] 64 billion objects in August 2009, [5] and 102 billion objects in March 2010. [6] S3 uses include web hosting, image hosting, and storage for backup systems. S3 guarantees 99.9% monthly uptime service-level agreement (SLA), [7] that is, not more than 43 minutes of downtime per month. [8]
- ↑ Amazon S3, Cloud Computing Storage for Files, Images, Videos. Aws.amazon.com (2006-03-01). Retrieved on 2013-08-09.
- ↑ The same data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites
- ↑ - Amazon S3 - Two Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests / Second
- ↑ Just a year ago, there were 18 billion objects in S3. As of today there are 52 billion
- ↑ S3 (Amazon's Simple Storage Service) alone has over 64 billion objects in it.
- ↑ Brian Lillie of Equinix said that Amazon now is hosting 102 billion objects in S3
- ↑ Amazon S3 SLA
- ↑ 60 min/hour * 24 hours in a day * 30 days * 0.1% = 43.2 min
2013
- http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
- Amazon S3 is intentionally built with a minimal feature set.
- Write, read, and delete objects containing from 1 byte to 5 terabytes of data each. The number of objects you can store is unlimited.
- Each object is stored in a bucket and retrieved via a unique, developer-assigned key.
- A bucket can be stored in one of several Regions. You can choose a Region to optimize for latency, minimize costs, or address regulatory requirements. Amazon S3 is currently available in the US Standard, US West (Oregon), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), South America (Sao Paulo), and GovCloud (US) Regions. The US Standard Region automatically routes requests to facilities in Northern Virginia or the Pacific Northwest using network maps.
- Objects stored in a Region never leave the Region unless you transfer them out. For example, objects stored in the EU (Ireland) Region never leave the EU.
- Authentication mechanisms are provided to ensure that data is kept secure from unauthorized access. Objects can be made private or public, and rights can be granted to specific users.
- Options for secure data upload/download and encryption of data at rest are provided for additional data protection.
- Uses standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces designed to work with any Internet-development toolkit.
- Built to be flexible so that protocol or functional layers can easily be added. The default download protocol is HTTP. A BitTorrent™ protocol interface is provided to lower costs for high-scale distribution.
- Reliability backed with the Amazon S3 Service Level Agreement.
- Amazon S3 is intentionally built with a minimal feature set.