AWS: Benefits of using Amazon S3
Let us start with a quick introduction. Amazon simple storage service or Amazon S3 provides developers / IT teams / Organizations / Individuals with secure, available, price friendly object storage in the cloud. Ok. Slow down. What is object storage? It is a computer data storage architecture that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems, which manage data as a file hierarchy, and block storage, which manages data as blocks within sectors and tracks. Amazon S3 is easy to use and can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time. All data transfers are over automatic encryption and SSL. Data is secure, available when needed and will scale as your needs grow. Last thing you want to worry about is losing valuable data. Amazon S3 automatically replicates your objects on multiple devices across multiple facilities. In Amazon S3, you create bucke