Amazon Simple Storage Service Documentation
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is storage for the internet. You can use
Amazon S3 to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the
web.
Amazon S3
Use Amazon S3 to store, manage, analyze, and protect any amount of data for virtually any use case, such as
data lakes, cloud-native applications, and mobile apps.
Amazon S3 Glacier
Use Amazon S3 Glacier for data archiving use cases and the lowest cost archive storage in the cloud.
Amazon S3 on Outposts
Use Amazon S3 on Outposts for local data processing and data residency use cases in your on-premises AWS Outposts environment.
Best Practices
Use best practice guidance from AWS experts—AWS Solutions Architects, Professional
Services Consultants, and Partners—to develop your architecture.
- Browse best practices for using AWS object storage, file storage, and block storage services, and backup and data migration options that help build the foundation of your cloud IT architecture.
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