Amazon S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a highly scalable, durable, and available object storage service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web, designed for…

Key facts

First appeared: 2006
Category: technology
Problem solved: Amazon S3 was created to provide developers with a simple, highly scalable, reliable, and cost-effective storage service for large amounts of unstructured data over the internet, abstracting away the complexities and high costs of managing traditional on-premises storage infrastructure.
Platforms: Cloud (AWS), AWS CLI, SDKs for various programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Node.js), Accessible via Web (REST API)

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Amazon EC2
Amazon EMR
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Backup
Amazon Redshift
AWS Lambda
AWS Glue
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Amazon Athena

Notable users

Dropbox
Expedia
Airbnb
Pinterest
Slack
NASA
Netflix