Amazon S3 resources
Documentation
Whitepapers & tutorials
eBook: Optimizing costs on Amazon S3
eBook: Amazon S3 security guidelines and best practices
Best Practices Design Patterns: Optimizing Amazon S3 Performance
Best Practices for building a Data Lake on Amazon S3 - Whitepaper HTML | PDF
Building a data lake on S3 - Solution Guide
Migrating to Apache HBase on Amazon S3 - Whitepaper
High Performance Computing on S3 - Whitepaper
Serverless Application Storage on S3 - Whitepaper
Big Data Analytics Storage - Whitepaper
S3 Video Tutorials
Amazon S3 for Financial Services PDF
Overview videos
15 years of Amazon S3 - Leadership videos
Amazon S3 was launched 15 years ago on Pi Day, March 14, 2006, and created the first generally available AWS service. Over that time, data storage and usage has exploded, and the world has never been the same. Amazon S3 has virtually unlimited scalability and unmatched availability, durability, security, and performance. Watch the videos below to hear from AWS leaders and experts as they take you back in time reviewing the history of AWS and the key decisions involved in the building and evolution of Amazon S3.
15 years of Amazon S3 - Foundational videos
Watch the videos below to hear how Amazon S3 was architected for availability and durability inside AWS Regions and Availability Zones. Understand how to get started with Amazon S3, best practices, and how to optimize for costs, data protection, and more.
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15 years of Amazon S3 - Security videos
Using AWS, you gain the control and confidence you need to securely run your business with the most flexible and secure cloud computing environment available today. With AWS, you can improve your ability to meet core security and compliance requirements, such as data locality, protection, and confidentiality with our comprehensive services and features. Watch the security videos to learn about the foundations of data security featuring Amazon S3.
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15 years of Amazon S3 - Serverless videos
Serverless is a way to describe the services, practices, and strategies that enable you to build more agile applications so you can innovate and respond to change faster. Watch the serverless and S3 videos to see how AWS Lambda can be the best compute option when working with data in Amazon S3.
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15 years of Amazon S3 - Data lake videos
Amazon S3 is the largest and most performant object storage service for structured and unstructured data—and the storage service of choice to build a data lake. Watch these videos to learn how to build a data lake on Amazon S3, and how you can use native AWS services or leverage AWS partners to run data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), high-performance computing (HPC), and media data processing applications to gain insights from your unstructured datasets.
15 years of Amazon S3 - Migration videos
AWS offers a wide variety of services and partner tools to help you migrate your data to Amazon S3. Learn how AWS Storage Gateway and AWS DataSync can remove the friction out of the data migration process as you dive into the solutions and architectural considerations for accelerating data migration to the cloud from on-premises systems.