Amazon S3 and Glacier use cases

Due to the versatility of the S3 storage solution, it has many different potential use cases. We will try to capture a snapshot of possible use cases by outlining some of the common uses that S3 is perfect for. In this section, we will be looking at the following use cases:

• Serverless hosting
• Web-scale content delivery
• Data lakes for big data and machine learning
• Extending the capabilities of enterprise applications
• Backup and disaster recovery
• Archiving

Serverless hosting

S3 can be used as a frontend to our serverless environment. As we mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, and as we will demonstrate in our example later on, we can host a static website straight from S3 by providing...