Q6Cloud Computing
Question
2 marks
What is Amazon S3 used for?
Answer
Amazon S3 is a highly scalable, mathematically durable object storage architecture designed to store and retrieve massive amounts of unstructured data via REST APIs.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an infinitely scalable Object Storage architecture. Unlike traditional block storage, it stores unstructured data (images, videos, backups) as "Objects" within "Buckets," assigning a unique mathematical HTTP URL to every object, guaranteeing 99.999999999% data durability.