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What is Amazon S3 ?

a. A webserver

b. A Cloud Security Encryption mechanism

c. An Internet Storage

d. All of the above

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Question added by Leo Rajapakse , Global Head of Platform Infrastructure & Cloud , Bimbo Bakeries USA
Date Posted: 2015/07/01
Ahmad Alzoubi
by Ahmad Alzoubi , Senior support engineer , Amazon Web Services

It's an internet object storage service provided by amazon.

Object storage differs from filesystem storage and block storages, that each object typically includes the data itself, a variable amount of metadata, and a globally unique identifier.

Shias Siddique
by Shias Siddique , IT Manager , TUV NORD Middle East

S3 stands for Simple Storage Service and is a part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is an online storage facility on Amazon's cloud platform. Amazon uses the concept of buckets which are like containers to store data on their public cloud offering. As part of your AWS subscription, you could enable S3 service which opens up a bucket for you which you can further use to store any type of data.

Kandarp Shah
by Kandarp Shah , Technical Operations Manager , Injazat Data Systems

It's a web storage or in simple terms internet based storage.

Arindam Majumder
by Arindam Majumder , Enterprise Architect , Multinational Company

There are two types of storage available in the market.

  1. BLOB Storage - used for file system
  2. Object Level Storage - Used to store objects like Photos, Media file, Videos, Songs, .. any type of object. 

Amazon S3 is an Object  level storage. It can be accessed over the internet. We can use Rest API calls to access this storage. It is one of the most cost effective solution available in the market. 

 

Mostafa Abdo
by Mostafa Abdo , Senior Infrastructure and Security Architect , Devoteam

its more of An Internet Storage

Mohammed Abnaof
by Mohammed Abnaof , Producer/Sound Engineer/Assistant Creative Director , FAKE MUSIC

D) all the above. Amazon S3 is a low cost online storage that also acts as a gate for other applications and can be enabled as an interfaced web server with a good encryption system to keep the data safe. Booya.

rafik belhouki
by rafik belhouki , Technician , Software & Hardware & Networks ... Maintenance IT (Information Technology )

Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service

Mahmoud EL-BAGORY
by Mahmoud EL-BAGORY , Product Technical lead , Tatweer

c. An Internet Storage

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an online file storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services.

NASSRELDEEN IBRAHIM ELTAYP BASHEER
by NASSRELDEEN IBRAHIM ELTAYP BASHEER , Senior Bussiness Solution Support Engineer , MTN Sudan

 

AMOAZON S3 is ( Amazon Simple Storage Service),  provides secure storage area through web services interfaces, that  developer’s and IT teams  can used .

that mean it contain allsecurity and storge and web  so all the above is surable answer

Sharique Ahmed
by Sharique Ahmed , Senior Technology Specialist , Zensar Technologies Limited

c. An Internet Storage

c. An Internet Storage

Muhammad Anzar
by Muhammad Anzar , DevOps/DevSecOps Architect , Confidential

Amazon Simple Storage Service is cloud disk from Amazon. This we can use backup file system.

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