Learning about Amazon storage services
Soon after Amazon released the EC2 service, it quickly released another service – the Simple Storage Service, or S3 for short. It was released on March 14, 2006. After the launch of S3, Amazon also launched many other object storage services to complement S3. We will analyze many of those services in this chapter.
S3 Standard
Initially, when Amazon launched the S3 service, it was simply called Amazon S3. Amazon now offers a variety of object storage services and they all use the S3 moniker, so Amazon has renamed S3 to S3 Standard.
S3 Standard delivers availability, durability, and performance for object storage for any data that will be accessed frequently. S3 Standard has low latency, high performance, and high throughput and is suitable for a long list of use cases, including the following:
- Websites with dynamic content
- Distribution of content
- Cloud applications
- Data analytics and processing
- Mobile and...