STORAGE
Amazon S3
Durable object storage for data addressed by bucket and object key rather than as a mounted disk.
Also appears as
Amazon Simple Storage ServiceS3CHOOSE IT WHEN
What job does it solve?
You need scalable object storage, data lakes, backups, logs, or static assets.
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Where does it stop?
An application requires a block device, shared POSIX file system, or relational database semantics.
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Lessons that mention it
- Lesson 03Why is this AWS request allowed or denied?
- Lesson 05Control access across AWS accounts
- Lesson 07Choose the right private connection
- Lesson 08Protect an application in layers
- Lesson 09Classify data before choosing controls
- Lesson 10Who can decrypt this data?
- Lesson 12Build a recovery copy the attacker cannot destroy
- Lesson 13Match each workload to the right AWS service
- Lesson 14Choose storage by access pattern and performance
- Lesson 15Choose where your code should run
- Lesson 32Ingestion frequency, streaming, transfer, and secure entry
- Lesson 33Transformation, processing, and governed data lakes
- Lesson 34Analytics serving and visualization strategy
- Lesson 36Storage service, access-pattern, and size economics
- Lesson 37S3 access, tiering, lifecycle, and archive economics
- Lesson 38Backup, block/file elasticity, and migration economics
- Lesson 41Database type, capacity, and cache economics
- Lesson 44Interactive NAT, endpoint, peering, TGW, and PrivateLink economics
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