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Understanding S3

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Understanding S3

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- [Instructor] When designing for availability, how you store data is a critical thing to consider. Let's understand what AWS offers in terms of storage. Possibly the most well known AWS storage offering is Simple Storage Service or S3. S3 is an object storage offering where individual objects can be grouped together into buckets. All S3 offerings are designed for 11 nines of durability. Part of how AWS achieves this remarkable number is by storing multiple copies of each object. Since all S3 buckets share the same global namespace, each bucket name must be completely unique. Because of this S3 is universally referenceable. It doesn't matter if your bucket is physically stored in Singapore or Seoul, you can get to it from any internet connected location on the planet. Within a bucket, you can store any type of file you want as an S3 object. Currently, the maximum size of a single S3 object is five terabytes. Seeing that five…

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