
Introducing Amazon S3 Object Lambda – Use Your Code to Process Data as It Is Being Retrieved from S3
When you store data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), you can easily share it for use…

Amazon S3 Glacier Price Reduction
The Amazon S3 Glacier storage class is ideal for data archiving and long-term backup of information that will be accessed at least once per quarter (Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive is a better fit for data that is seldom accessed).Amazon…

Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday – It is Still Day 1 after 5,475 Days & 100 Trillion Objects
I wrote the blog post that announced Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) fifteen years ago today. In that post, I made it clear that the service was accessed via APIs and that it was targeted at developers, outlined a few key features,…

AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 is Now Generally Available
At AWS re:Invent, we pre-announced that AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 was coming soon, and soon has arrived — this new feature is now generally available. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between Amazon Simple Storage Service…

Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency
When we launched S3 back in 2006, I discussed its virtually unlimited capacity (“…easily store any number of blocks…”), the fact that it was designed to provide 99.99% availability, and that it offered durable storage, with data…

New – Amazon S3 Replication Adds Support for Multiple Destination Buckets
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) supports many types of replication, including S3 Same-Region Replication (SRR), which launched in 2019 and S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR), which has been around since 2015. Today, we are happy to announce…

Introducing Amazon S3 Storage Lens – Organization-wide Visibility Into Object Storage
When starting out in the cloud, a customer’s storage requirements might consist of a handful of S3 buckets, but as they grow, migrate more applications and realize the power of the cloud, things can become more complicated. A customer…

New – Export Amazon DynamoDB Table Data to Your Data Lake in Amazon S3, No Code Writing Required
Hundreds of thousands of AWS customers have chosen Amazon DynamoDB for mission-critical workloads since its launch in 2012. DynamoDB is a nonrelational managed database that allows you to store a virtually infinite amount of data and retrieve…

S3 Intelligent-Tiering Adds Archive Access Tiers
We launched S3 Intelligent-Tiering two years ago, which added the capability to take advantage of S3 without needing to have a deep understanding of your data access patterns. Today we are launching two new optimizations for S3 Intelligent-Tiering…

Amazon S3 Update – Three New Security & Access Control Features
A year or so after we launched Amazon S3, I was in an elevator at a tech conference and heard a couple of developers use “just throw it into S3” as the answer to their data storage challenge. I remember that moment well because the…