Chapter 9. Other AWS Storage Options
AWS offers a variety of highly available, scalable, reliable, and secure storage services to address various organizational needs. It provides a rich web console for all of the services, which is easy to access and navigate. Its easy-to-use UI complements efficient services for quickly performing day-to-day administrative tasks. AWS also provides a set of API and CLI interfaces. You can use APIs and CLIs to perform advanced operations or to automate various tasks using customized applications and scripts. The following table describes a number of storage and backup services provided by AWS:
AWS service | Description |
Amazon S3
![]() | S3 is a cloud-based object storage service which can be used over the Internet. It is ideally suggested for storing static content such as graphics files, documents, log files, audio, video, compressed files, and so on. Virtually, any type of data in any file format can be stored on S3. Currently, permissible object size in S3 is 0 bytes... |