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Aravind kumar TS
Aravind kumar TS

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Simple Storage Service, Glacier

𝐒3 - 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞, Region specific, Object storage, both files and audios can be stored.
S3 buckets can be versioned so that when files are stored under the folder of a bucket they get stored or uploaded as various versions.
S3 buckets should not be publicly accessible.
IAM users can access S3 buckets in order to achieve this the bucket policy has to be edited.
S3 storage types - Intelligent tiering, Infrequent access etc.
Intelligent tiering stores the frequent and non frequently access data's separate
Infrequent access - Datas not frequently accessed gets stored here.
S3 buckets can be encrypted using KMS keys.
Number of buckets per AWS region is 100.
S3 glacier is a object storage as well which stores data which are rarely accessed for example archival datas.
The IOPs is less in S3 glacier when compared to S3
S3 buckets can be accessed via AWS CLI too
It's good practice to store your Terraform state files in S3 bucket and also VPC flow logs in S3 bucket

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