Simple Storage Service

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is the most popular object store. You can keep plain text files, backup copies, archives, various log files, images, videos, and audio in S3. S3 is a highly available and durable data store. This service provides with you various storage classes to store your objects so that you can reduce the cost further. Files are stored as flat organizations inside buckets. You only pay for the space that you use. There is no commitment as such. You can also use S3 for hosting static websites. This service is tightly integrated with other services; thus you can use it to store all kinds of data, and access it when needed with other services. S3 also provides you with the ability to define policies and Access Control Lists to control the access to your buckets.