Different Storage Classes In Amazon S3

Amazon S3 support different storage classes. Based on the storage class it varies the obects durability, availability, latency and performance. We can explore about the storage class here.

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Amazon S3 offers a range of storage classes designed for different use cases. The main S3 storage classes are.

• S3 Standard
• S3 Intelligent-Tiering
• S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)
• S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)
• Amazon S3 Glacier (S3 Glacier)
• Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive (S3 Glacier Deep Archive)

Here the S3 Standard is the default storage type of Amazon S3 and it is the general-purpose storage type. S3 Intelligent-Tiering is automated cost optimized storage type.S3 Standard-Infrequent Access and S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access are used for accessing infrequent data. Finally the Amazon S3 Glacier and Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive used for archiving data.

S3 Standard

It is the default storage class. S3 Standard offers high durability, availability, and performance object storage for frequently accessed data. It delivers low latency and high throughput. There is a wide variety of use cases for the S3 Standard storage class such as…