Type of site Available in Owner Website support Yes Commercial Yes Registration Required Launched March 14, 2006; 11 years ago ( 2006-03-14) Current status Active Amazon S3 ( Simple Storage Service) is a offered by (AWS). Amazon S3 provides storage through interfaces (,, and ). Amazon launched S3 on its fifth publicly available web service [ ], in the United States in March 2006 and in Europe in November 2007. Amazon says that S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its own global e-commerce network. Amazon S3 is reported to store more than 2 trillion objects as of April 2013. This is up from 10 billion as of October 2007, 14 billion in January 2008, 29 billion in October 2008, 52 billion in March 2009, 64 billion objects in August 2009, and 102 billion objects in March 2010. S3 uses include web hosting, image hosting, and storage for backup systems.

Update: I learned that Shrub exists. It's much nicer than what I hacked up in an hour! This is just a quick one. I host a lot of public files on an Amazon S3 bucket. The article explains how to browse/explore an Amazon S3 Bucket with S3 Browser. View S3 Buckets and files on S3.

S3 guarantees 99.9% monthly uptime (SLA), that is, not more than 43 minutes of downtime per month. At AWS Summit 2013 NYC, CTO announces 2 trillion objects stored in S3. Amazon does not make details of S3's design public, though it clearly manages data with an architecture. According to Amazon, S3's design aims to provide,, and at costs. [ ] S3 is designed to provide 99% durability and 99.99% availability of objects over a given year, though there is no for durability. Do Computer Speed Up Programs Work on this page.

Paint Tool Sai Brushes Pack there. S3 stores arbitrary objects () up to 5 in size, each accompanied by up to 2 of. Objects are organized into buckets (each owned by an account), and identified within each bucket by a unique, user-assigned key. Which are used in the (EC2) can be exported to S3 as bundles.