What type of store is Amazon S3?

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Amazon S3 is an object storage service that stores data as objects within buckets. An object is a file and any metadata that describes the file. A bucket is a container for objects. To store your data in Amazon S3, you first create a bucket and specify a bucket name and AWS Region.

What type of storage is Amazon S3?

Amazon S3 is object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere. It's a simple storage service that offers industry leading durability, availability, performance, security, and virtually unlimited scalability at very low costs.

Is S3 a block store?

Amazon S3. Amazon EBS is the AWS block storage offering and Amazon S3 is the AWS object storage offering.

Is Amazon S3 a key based object store?

AWS S3 is a key-value store, one of the major categories of NoSQL databases used for accumulating voluminous, mutating, unstructured, or semistructured data. Uploaded objects are referenced by a unique key, which can be any string. This high-level and generic storage structure affords users near-infinite flexibility.

Why is S3 called an object store?

Objects are kept inside a single repository, and are not nested as files inside a folder inside other folders. Object storage keeps the blocks of data that make up a file together and adds all of its associated metadata to that file.

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