S3 is a storage product from AWS to help users store documents such as pdfs, pngs and any other files. An object in S3 can be called as a single file.
Characteristics:
- an object can be up to 5TB.
- you can encrypt data before saving into S3 and decrypt before downloading into your desk.
- supports unlimited data upload and multi-threaded uploads.
- High availability: Automatically stores data in multiple zones within your region.
- you can add policies to a bucket, for example you can say after 2 months of data upload, you can configure to move the data to another storage such as glacier.
- supports versioning of objects within S3, which means when you accidentally delete an object, you can recover by accessing old versions of the object.
- secured storage, which means you can be sure that only you can store or set priveleges that only you can access the data.
- you can store as much data you want, it will scale based on your needs.
What operations you can perform using S3.
- CRUD operations on Bucket.
- you can choose your region/zone you want to store the data and use S3 APIs to store the data.
- you can send event notifications whenever someone uploads a data into an bucket.
- Can be integrated with other AWS services such as "whenever an object is loaded into a bucket, you can send the data into Kinesis".
- use S3 as a backup storage or host static files for your web page.
- perform disaster recovery of your systems by storing backup images in S3.
- host static web sites or files.
S3 pricing:
- Storage cost: You pay approximately $0.03 for every GB for the first 1 TB
- Request pricing:
you pay $0.004 per 10,000 requests for all GET requests.
You pay $0.005 per 1,000 requests for all PUT, COPY, POST requests, delete requests are not priced.
- Data transfer pricing:
Data transfer in to S3 is not charged
Data transfer OUT to same region is not charged.
Data transfer OUT to another region or over to internet is charged, first 1 GB transfer is free, after that it will be charged at 9 cents per GB.
You can use the AWS calculator to approximately determine how much it will cost for the services you choose based on the data you provide.
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
Full pricing information can be found here - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
How do you operate on S3:
- use the AWS console to operate on S3
- use AWS SDK, supports different languages such as Java, .net, python, php, nodejs, ruby. You can also use AWS mobile SDK to directly upload data into S3 from the mobile.
S3 FAQ: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/
Characteristics:
- an object can be up to 5TB.
- you can encrypt data before saving into S3 and decrypt before downloading into your desk.
- supports unlimited data upload and multi-threaded uploads.
- High availability: Automatically stores data in multiple zones within your region.
- you can add policies to a bucket, for example you can say after 2 months of data upload, you can configure to move the data to another storage such as glacier.
- supports versioning of objects within S3, which means when you accidentally delete an object, you can recover by accessing old versions of the object.
- secured storage, which means you can be sure that only you can store or set priveleges that only you can access the data.
- you can store as much data you want, it will scale based on your needs.
What operations you can perform using S3.
- CRUD operations on Bucket.
- you can choose your region/zone you want to store the data and use S3 APIs to store the data.
- you can send event notifications whenever someone uploads a data into an bucket.
- Can be integrated with other AWS services such as "whenever an object is loaded into a bucket, you can send the data into Kinesis".
- use S3 as a backup storage or host static files for your web page.
- perform disaster recovery of your systems by storing backup images in S3.
- host static web sites or files.
S3 pricing:
- Storage cost: You pay approximately $0.03 for every GB for the first 1 TB
- Request pricing:
you pay $0.004 per 10,000 requests for all GET requests.
You pay $0.005 per 1,000 requests for all PUT, COPY, POST requests, delete requests are not priced.
- Data transfer pricing:
Data transfer in to S3 is not charged
Data transfer OUT to same region is not charged.
Data transfer OUT to another region or over to internet is charged, first 1 GB transfer is free, after that it will be charged at 9 cents per GB.
You can use the AWS calculator to approximately determine how much it will cost for the services you choose based on the data you provide.
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
Full pricing information can be found here - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
How do you operate on S3:
- use the AWS console to operate on S3
- use AWS SDK, supports different languages such as Java, .net, python, php, nodejs, ruby. You can also use AWS mobile SDK to directly upload data into S3 from the mobile.
S3 FAQ: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/
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