Friday 4 January 2013

Amazon Simple Storage Service or S3

We have previously discussed how really critical data has become today with the fast growth of businesses. Business are willing to pay any price for the efficient management, maintenance and security of data that has become a vital business asset. Services like AWS have smartly tapped into this opportunity to provide enterprise-wide reliable data storage solutions.

The Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a data management and maintenance feature included in the Amazon Cloud infrastructure which is popularly known as Amazon Web Services. S3 is aimed at providing reliable storage for the astronomically vast amounts of business data. By reliable, it means that the data will be available when it is needed and the the integrity of the business critical data that it houses is guaranteed. Security is a critical concern as far as cloud computing is concerned as the business enterprise premises and their data storage premises are disjoint. This is a worrisome because the critical and confidential data is maintained at a remote location that is accessible via the internet.

Amazon S3 guarantees the integrity of data as well as 24*7 availability of the data. It is an efficient storage solution that can intelligently scale up as the business grows. Storage has become a critical facet of IT solutions today and what was for a long time a rather stagnant and nonchalant area of high performance computing, has now pressed the IT giants to speedily innovate in this much neglected front.

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