Summary
Amazon's highly durable, highly available object storage.
Notes
- Basically, this is storage in the cloud. It's Dropbox with a less friendly user interface (literally, as the initial release of Dropbox used S3 on the backend).
- S3 however also integrates with other AWS services (e.g. it can hold the code based need to set up your website, you can use it to supply input to EMR cluster and to store the results, it can be used to store incoming email for your domain.)
- The basics are intuitive, more advanced features take more effort but there is good documentation.
- This is a paid service but represents a very small percentage of my AWS costs (really small, like a penny a month).
