3 years ago

Category: Software, Data, artificial-intelligence

In that post, I made it clear that the service was accessed via APIs and that it was targeted at developers, outlined a few key features, and shared pricing information.

A Simple Start Looking back on that launch, we made a lot of decisions that have proven to be correct, and that made it easy for developers to understand and get started with S3 in minutes: We started with a simple conceptual model: Uniquely named buckets that could hold any number of objects, each identified by a string key.

In accord with the cost-following model, we have reduced the price per GB-month of S3 many times, and have also introduced storage classes that allow you to pay even less to store data that you reference only infrequently (S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive), or for data that you can re-create if necessary (S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access).

S3 Today With more than 100 trillion objects in S3 and an almost unimaginably broad set of use cases, we continue to get requests for more features.

On to the Next 15 And with that, I look forward to the next 15 years in the growth and evolution of S3!