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aliases:
  - S3
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> Part of [[AWS Cloud Services#AWS Core Services|AWS Core Services]]
##### Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
An object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
- Object-based storage.
- Designed for 99.999999999% (11 9’s) of durability.
- Ideal for:
    - Media storage
    - Backups / archives
    - Data lakes
    - ML and analytics

**Components:**
- **Bucket**: A container to store an unlimited number of objects
- **Object**: The actual entities stored in the buckets
- **Key**: Unique identifier for the object