Chapter 5.5 - S3 Storage Classes

Question 1

List the S3 storage classes:

Answer 1

• S3 Standard
• S3 Standard - IA (Infrequent Access)
• S3 One Zone - IA (Infrequent Access)
• Glacier
• Glacier Deep Archive
• S3 - Intelligent Tiering
• S3 Outposts

Question 2

What are the characteristics of S3 Standard?

Answer 2

Availability
     99.99%
Durability
     11 9’s
Availability Zones (AZs)
     >= 3
Use Case
     Suitable for most workloads (e.g. websites, content distribution, mobile and gaming applications, and big data analytics)

Question 3

What are the characteristics of S3 Standard - IA (Infrequent Access)?

Answer 3

Availability
     99.9%
Durability
     11 9’s
Availability Zones (AZs)
     >= 3
Use Case
     Long term, infrequently accessed critical data (e.g. backups, data store for disaster recovery files, etc)

Question 4

What are the characteristics of S3 One Zone - IA (Infrequent Access)?

Answer 4

Availability
     99.5%
Durability
     11 9’s
Availability Zones (AZs)
     >= 1
Use Case
     Long-term, infrequently accessed, non-critical data

Question 5

What are the characteristics of Glacier?

Answer 5

Availability
     99.99%
Durability
     11 9’s
Availability Zones (AZs)
     >= 3
Use Case
     Long-term data archiving that occasionally needs to be accessed within a few hours or minutes

Question 6

What are the characteristics of Glacier Deep Archive?

Answer 6

Availability
     99.99%
Durability
     11 9’s
Availability Zones (AZs)
     >= 3
Use Case
     Rarely accessed data archiving with a default retrieval time of 12 hours (e.g. financial records for regulatory purposes)

Question 7

What are the characteristics of S3 - Intelligent Tiering?

Answer 7

Availability
     99.9%
Durability
     11 9’s
Availability Zones (AZs)
     >= 3
Use Case
     Unknown or unpredictable access patterns

Question 8

What are the characteristics of S3 Outposts?

Answer 8

Amazon S3 on Outposts delivers object storage to your on-premises AWS Outposts environment to meet local data processing and data residency needs.

Mentioned in the Cloud Practitioner course as a new service.
Not mentioned in Solutions Architect Associate course.