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Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Amazon S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its e-commerce network. [ 3 ]
Amazon S3 Glacier is an online file storage web service that provides storage for data archiving and backup. [ 2 ] Glacier is part of the Amazon Web Services suite of cloud computing services, and is designed for long-term storage of data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval latency times of 3 to 5 hours are acceptable.
MinIO is an object storage system released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. [3] It is API compatible with the Amazon S3 cloud storage service. It is capable of working with unstructured data such as photos, videos, log files, backups, and container images with the maximum supported object size being 50TB.
Free online storage (non-trial) 13 Maximum per-file size External hard drive support 14 ... No limit Yes Yes Partial, Amazon AWS or Google Cloud Storage [34] [87]
Storage size Max. file size Traffic or bandwidth limit Client-side encryption [1] Remote uploading? Developer API? FTP upload possible? File versioning Follows symlinks Free GB (number only) Append-only support? [2] Lifecycle Policy support? Misc. notes Amazon S3 [3] 5 GB 12-month free trial with credit-card (paid bandwidth), unlimited paid
S3-based storage is priced per gigabyte per month. Applications access S3 through an API. For example, Apache Hadoop supports a special s3: filesystem to support reading from and writing to S3 storage during a MapReduce job. There are also S3 filesystems for Linux, which mount a remote S3 filestore on an EC2 image, as if it were local storage.
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Cloud storage has become pervasive as many new web and mobile applications choose it as a common way to store binary data. [32] As the storage back-end to many popular applications like Smugmug and Dropbox, Amazon S3 has grown to massive scale, citing over 2-trillion objects stored in April 2013. [33]