Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a storage service that offers scalability, availability, security and performance. This means that regardless of the size of the company and regardless of the industry, the service can be used to store and protect as much data as possible in all kinds of situations such as:
- for websites, mobile applications,
- backup and restore,
- archives,
- enterprise-specific applications,
- analyzing information received from IoT devices
- or big data analytics.
The Amazon S3 offers easy-to-use management features so data organization is easy and the level of access provided can be specific to the organization or the required standards. The Amazon S3 is built to cope with 99.999999999% (11 of 9) of the situations. Can store data for millions of applications for companies around the world.
Performance, scalability,
availability and durability
Storage space can scale up and down according to the requirements at a time, without initial costs or unpleasant resource approval cycles. Amazon S3 is built for 99.999999999% (11 of 9) – date durability. This happens because it automatically creates and stores copies of all S3 objects on multiple systems simultaneously. Data is available when needed and protected from physical malfunctions, errors or threats.
Security, Compliance
and Auditing
By storing data in the Amazon S3 they are protected from unauthorized access benefiting from encryption and access monitoring and access control tools. Amazon Macie can be used to identify sensitive S3 data and identify atypical access requests. Amazon S3 maintains compliance programs such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA / HITECH, FedRAMP, EU Data Protection Directive, and FISMA to meet regulatory requirements. AWS also provides support for many types of audit with the ability to monitor requests for access to resources saved in S3.
Management tools
for granular data control
Classification, administration and reporting of data can be done using the S3 Storage Class Analysis to analyze access patterns. S3 Lifecycle policies for transferring objects in lower cost classes. S3 Cross-Region Replication for replicating data in other regions. S3 Object Lock to apply retention data to objects and protect them from being deleted, or S3 Inventory for more visibility over saved data – their metadata or statusus encryption. S3 Batch Operations can be used to change object properties or various storage management tasks for billions of objects. Since the Amazon S3 works with AWS Lambda, the activities can be logged, can define alerts and automate workflows without additional infrastructure.
