What is Amazon S3 really?

What is Amazon S3 really?

Amazon S3 is a cloud object storage system that is built to retrieve any amount of data from anywhere. Amazon S3 is short for 'Amazon simple storage service'.
It is an object storage service with cost-effective storage classes and easy-to-use management features. It offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, performance and security. You can optimize data and configure fine-tuned access controls to meet specific business, organizational and compliance requirements. Customers of all sizes and industries can store and protect any amount of data for virtually any use case, such as data lakes, cloud-native applications and mobile apps.

Building a data lake:
Run big data analytics, artificial intelligence(AI), machine learning(ML), and high performance computing(HPC) applications to unlock data insights.

Backup and restore critical data:
Meet Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), Recovery Point Objective (RPO), and compliance requirements with S3’s robust replication features,

Archive data at the lowest cost:
Move data archives to the Amazon S3. Glacier storage classes to lower costs, eliminate operational complexities, and gain new insights.

Run cloud-native applications:
Build fast, powerful mobile and web-based cloud-native apps that scale automatically in a highly available configuration.

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