AWS provides you with S3 as the object storage, where you can store your object files from 1 KB to 5 TB in size at a low cost. It's highly secure, durable, and scalable, and has unlimited capacity. It allows concurrent read/write access to objects by separate clients and applications. You can store any type of file in AWS S3 storage.
AWS keeps multiple copies of all the data stored in the standard S3 storage, which are replicated across devices in the region to ensure durability of 99.999999999%. S3 cannot be used as block storage.
AWS S3 storage is further categorized into three different sections:
- S3 Standard: This is suitable when we need durable storage for files with frequent access.
- Reduced Redundancy Storage: This is suitable when we have less critical data that is persistent in nature.
- Infrequent Access (IA): This is suitable when you have durable data with nonfrequent...
