object storage in the cloud is huge. It is its natural home, and AWS’s S3 is the big beast that roams there. While it’s hard to get a definitive figure, the most recent AWS (Amazon Web ...

S3 is based on object storage, but AWS now offers a range of other options. For file, these include Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), Amazon FSx, and Amazon File Cache. Amazon Elastic Block Store ...

Amazon Web Services' (AWS) cloud storage platform S3 or Simple Storage Service today stores over 100 trillion objects. S3 was AWS' first generally available service that promised developers ...

AWS Storage Gateway is a way to bridge this gap for companies of any size. It’s a hybrid storage option that connects on-premise storage -- including age-old tape backup systems -- to the cloud ...

However, for file storage, there are bigger difference in the offerings from AWS, Azure and Google with AWS leading in offering the most options. Object storage—AWS S3, Azure Blob and Google ...

Object storage may not have been born in the cloud ... The key to the latter issue was the development of the S3 protocol by AWS, which isn’t to be confused with the cloud company’s Simple Storage ...

The colder the storage, the less expensive it is. AWS’s primary object storage platform is Simple Storage Service (S3). It offers Standard-Infrequent Access for cool storage and Glacier for cold ...

AWS EFS is a scalable file storage solution for use with Amazon EC2 instances. It's designed to be a simple, elastic, and scalable file system for Linux-based workloads, which can be used with ...