AWS Classroom Series – 28/May/2021

Object Storage Classes

• Expand properties section while uploading an object to s3 bucket

• S3 Standard:

  • This offers high availability and performance object storage for frequently accessed data
  • AWS will create multiple copies of your data in different availability zones.
  • Availability: 99.99%

• S3 Standard-Infrequent access (IA):

  • Availability: 99.9%
  • This offers less storage cost and has costs for accessing the data
  • This storage class is perfect for saving the backup files and disaster recovery files

• S3 One Zone-IA: Similar to S3-IA , the difference is data will be store in only one AZ

  • Availability: 99.5%

• S3 Intelligent Tiering:

  • You load your data to S3 Standard and if it is not accessed for 30 days it is move to S3-Standard-IA. When it is accessed it is moved back to S3 Standard

• To Move the S3 objects from one Storage Class to other we have three options

  • Do it manually
  • Use Intelligent tier as a storage
  • S3 Life Cycle