Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is AWS's managed object storage service — the de facto substrate for data lakes and lakehouses, with tiered storage classes and fine-grained access control.
Amazon S3 is AWS's managed object storage service. It stores objects in buckets with eleven-nines durability, versioning, lifecycle policies across storage classes, and IAM- and policy-based access control down to prefix level.
For data platforms, S3 is the reference substrate: raw zones land as files, open table formats layer ACID tables over those files, and every major engine reads and writes it natively. Features such as S3 Tables bring table-format awareness into the service itself.
S3 is the default choice for lake storage on AWS, with GCS and ADLS as the equivalents on other clouds and MinIO as the common self-hosted, API-compatible alternative.
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General
| License | Commercial |
| Deployment | Managed, Hybrid |
| Operational complexity | Low |
| Pricing | Consumption |
| Documentation | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/s3/ |
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