Amazon S3 is AWS's object storage service for storing and retrieving any amount of data, with high durability and tiered storage classes. Launched in 2006, it offers a 12-month free tier, then per-GB usage-based pricing plus egress, with a 99.9% uptime SLA. It serves applications needing scalable, reliable file and backup storage, from startups to enterprises. The S3 API is a de-facto standard supporting open standards and easy data export, though deep AWS integration carries higher vendor lock-in. It carries SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP attestations.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2006
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Cloud infrastructure
- Starting price
- $2/mo
- SLA uptime
- 99.9%
- Managed Kubernetes
- No
- Helm support
- No
- Free tier
- Yes
- Vendor lock-in
- High
- Open standards
- Yes
- Easy data export
- Yes
- Multi-cloud friendly
- Yes
- Org size
- Enterprise
- Support tier
- Enterprise
- Ease of use
- 3/5