Let’s start the the high level. Amazon Simple Storage Service, better known as S3, offers a super durable, scalable storage solution. It offers 99.999999999% durability, also known as eleven 9’s. This means that once every 10,000 years you would lose some data in S3. All S3 tiers offer encryption at rest and the ability to move data to different storage classes using lifecycle policies. There are seven flavors of S3. Standard, Standard-Infrequently Accessed, Intelligent Tiering, One Zone-Infrequently Accessed, Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive.
Standard
This is your most expensive S3 option. The key thing to remember about S3 standard is that it is for frequently accessed data. It has a 99.99% availability. IT also provides protection from destruction of an availability zone, and has eleven 9’s of durability. This high availability and durability comes with the steepest price tag at $0.023 per GB.
Standard — Infrequently Accessed
Infrequently accessed or IA describes itself. It’s intention is for long term storage of infrequently accessed data. IA offers eleven 9’s of durability and 99.9% availability. IA, like standard, offers protection against the destruction of an availability zone. Due to the intent for IA data to be long lived there is a minimum charge time of 30 days and you are…
