


Objects can be up to five terabytes in size. Buckets can be managed using the console provided by Amazon S3, programmatically with the AWS SDK, or the REST application programming interface. Each object is identified by a unique, user-assigned key. The basic storage units of Amazon S3 are objects which are organized into buckets. Design Īmazon S3 manages data with an object storage architecture which aims to provide scalability, high availability, and low latency with high durability. Amazon S3 can store any type of object, which allows uses like storage for Internet applications, backups, disaster recovery, data archives, data lakes for analytics, and hybrid cloud storage.ĪWS launched Amazon S3 in the United States on March 14, 2006, then in Europe in November 2007. Amazon S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that uses to run its e-commerce network. Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface.
