Amazon S3 can be described as object storage that stores and retrieves any quantity of data from anywhere on the internet. Amazon S3 features a simple web service interface.
- Renders incredible durability,
- Scales past trillions of objects globally,
- Once data is saved in S3, it can be tiered automatically into minimal cost, long-term cloud storage classes such as Amazon Glacier and S3 Standard - Infrequent Access for archiving.
- Serves as a target for backup and recovery, and disaster recovery; "data lake" for Big Data analytics, tier in an active archive and bulk repository for user-generated content.