If Spark is a MapReduce killer, Amazon S3 is an HDFS killer. S3 is what the ultimate dream of cloud storage can be thought of as. S3 is a foundational service on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and almost every application running on AWS uses S3 for storage. Not only end-user applications but also other AWS services use S3 extensively; following are a few examples:
- Amazon Kinesis uses S3 as target storage
- Amazon Elastic MapReduce has one storage mode in S3
- Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) uses S3 to store snapshots
- Amazon Relation Database Service (RDS) uses S3 to store snapshots
- Amazon Redshift uses S3 for data staging
- Amazon DynamoDB uses S3 for data staging
Following are some of the salient features of S3:
- 11 9's of durability
- 4 9's of availability
- Typical cost being $30/TB per month while even lower cost options are available
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) provides developers and IT teams with a secure, durable, and scalable storage platform. The biggest advantage of...