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Amazon S3
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a highly scalable, durable, and secure object storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a highly scalable, durable, and secure object storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It allows users to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web, making it ideal for a wide range of use cases including data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, and big data analytics. S3 organizes data into "buckets" which act as containers for objects (files), and each object is identified by a unique key within its bucket. The service offers various storage classes to optimize costs based on data access patterns, and integrates seamlessly with other AWS services and third-party tools. For data analysts and engineers, S3 often serves as a central repository for raw and processed data, enabling efficient data ingestion, transformation, and analysis workflows in conjunction with other data processing tools and services.
Related terms
S3 bucket →
An S3 bucket is a fundamental storage container in Amazon Web Services' Simple Storage Service (S3).
Object storage →Object storage is a data storage architecture that manages data as discrete objects — each with data, metadata, and a unique identifier — in a flat namespace, accessed over HTTP APIs rather than a traditional file system hierarchy.
Cloud Storage →Cloud storage refers to a model of data storage where digital information is kept on remote servers accessed through the internet, rather than on local hard…
storage layer →The storage layer refers to the component of a data system responsible for persistently storing and managing data.
Amazon Redshift →Amazon Redshift is AWS's cloud data warehouse, using massively parallel processing (MPP) to run analytical SQL over large datasets, available as provisioned clusters or serverless.
Parquet →Apache Parquet is a columnar storage file format designed for efficient data processing and analytics.
