Amazon S3

Object storage built to retrieve any amount of data from anywhere

5 GB of S3 standard storage

for 12 months with the AWS Free Tier

Scale storage resources to meet fluctuating needs with 99.999999999% (11 9s) of data durability.

Store data across Amazon S3 storage classes to reduce costs without upfront investment or hardware refresh cycles.

Protect your data with unmatched security, compliance, and audit capabilities.

Easily manage data at any scale with robust access controls, flexible replication tools, and
organization-wide visibility.

How it works

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Customers of all sizes and industries can store and protect any amount of data for virtually any use case, such as data lakes, cloud-native applications, and mobile apps. With cost-effective storage classes and easy-to-use management features, you can optimize costs, organize data, and configure fine-tuned access controls to meet specific business, organizational, and compliance requirements.

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Use cases

Build a data lake

Run big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and high performance computing (HPC) applications to unlock data insights.

Learn more about building a data lake on Amazon S3 »

Back up and restore critical data

Meet Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), and compliance requirements with S3’s robust replication features.

Learn more about backup and restore »

Archive data at the lowest cost

Move data archives to the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes to lower costs, eliminate operational complexities, and gain new insights.

Learn more about archiving with the S3 Glacier storage classes »

Run cloud-native applications

Build fast, powerful mobile and web-based cloud-native apps that scale automatically in a highly available configuration.

Learn more about cloud-native applications »