08-03 S3 Storage Classes

Last updated Aug 17, 2023 Edit Source

AWS offers a range of S3 storage classes that trade Retrieval, Time, Accessibility, and Durability for Cheaper Storage

• Fast!
• 99.99% availability
• 11 9’s Durability
• Replicated across at least three AZs

• Uses ML to analyze object usage and determine the appropriate storage class
• Data is moved to the most cost effective access tier, without any performance impact or added overhead

• Still Fast!
• Cheaper if you access files less than once a month
• Additional retrieval fee is applied.
• 50% less than standard (reduced availability)

• Still fast!
• Objects only exist in one AZ
• Availability is 99.5%
• cheaper than Standard IA (reduced durability bc data could get destroyed)
• A retrieval fee is applied

• For long term cold storage
• Retrieval of data can take minutes to hours
• very cheap storage

• The lowest cost storage class
• Data retrieval time is 12 hours