Summary

AWS S3 is the most used service because of its simplicity and several powerful capabilities for out-of-the-box data management. The S3 service provides you various choices of storage classes and the ability to simplify your S3 data management using lifecycle policies. It is an unlimited web object store, which is highly durable and available. You have the capability to use S3 with other AWS services with very simple permission setup or configuration. There are a variety of options to store encrypted data. S3 also provides you with high performance for uploads and downloads. There are a number of use cases for which you can use this service. I suggest that you review several use cases published on the AWS website. In the next chapter, you will learn about building a highly available, fault-tolerant environment.