S3

Abbreviation · Development

Definitions

  1. Amazon Simple Storage Service — a highly durable object storage service that stores files as objects in buckets, accessed via HTTP APIs. S3 offers 99.999999999% (11 nines) durability and has become the de facto standard for cloud file storage, static asset hosting, backups, and data lake foundations.

    In plain English: Amazon's cloud file storage service where you can store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the internet.

    Example: "Upload the build artifacts to S3 and serve the static site from a CloudFront distribution pointing at the bucket."

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