Amazon S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage built to retrieve any amount of data from anywhere.

Amazon S3 Non-archival Storage Classes

• Stores files as objects in buckets
• Provides different storage classes for different use cases
  • Standard: for freqently accessed data
  • Intelligent Tiering: moves data to correct class based on usage
  • Standard-IA: for infrequently accessed data with the standard resilience
  • S3 One Zone-IA: for infrequently accessed data that is stored in only one AZ
• Stores data across multiple availability zones
• Enables URL access for files
• Offers configurable rules for data lifecycle Can serve as a static website host

Use cases

For fast storage and access of -

• Images, documents, tabular data in files, etc.
• Machine Learning models
• Database backups, logs, and other dumps
• Hosting website

Demo

• Connect to ai-academy-2022 S3 bucket
• Using AWS Python SDK, list all the objects in the ai-academy-2022 bucket