Object storage built to retrieve any amount of data from anywhere

5 GB of standard storage

for 12 months with the AWS Free Tier

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

Store data across 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

Millions of customers use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store data for analytics, applications, machine learning (ML), and more.

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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 datainsights.

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Backup and restore critical data

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

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Archive data at the lowest cost

Move on-premises archives to the low-cost S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage classes to eliminate operational complexities.

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Run cloud-native applications

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

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