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Amazon Web Services
Amazon S3 is a scalable, durable object storage service for storing and retrieving any amount of data with pay-as-you-go pricing and security/compliance controls suitable for healthcare workloads.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) provides object storage with 99.999999999% (11 nines) durability, multiple storage classes (Standard, Intelligent‑Tiering, Infrequent Access, Glacier, Glacier Deep Archive), lifecycle policies, versioning, encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, logging, replication (Cross‑Region and Cross‑Account), data immutability (Object Lock/WORM), and integrations with AWS analytics, compute, and backup services. It is commonly used to store medical images, EHR backups, genomics data, logs, and analytics datasets and supports compliance frameworks (e.g., HIPAA) when configured appropriately.
yes
2006
Selectable AWS regions worldwide (US, EU, APAC, GovCloud); customers choose region(s) or use Outposts/Local Zones for on‑prem/regional residency
P0191
2025-09-07
Proprietary commercial (AWS Service Terms)
Pay-as-you-go usage pricing: charges for storage used (per GB-month by storage class), requests/operations, data retrieval, data transfer, and additional features (lifecycle transitions, replication). Tier discounts and savings plans available; free tier offers limited monthly storage for 12 months. See vendor pricing page or contact AWS sales for enterprise agreements.
subscription
2006
No customer infrastructure required for AWS-managed S3; access via AWS SDKs/CLI; optional on‑prem with Outposts or Snowball Edge
product
1.0
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"description": "Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) provides object storage with 99.999999999% (11 nines) durability, multiple storage classes (Standard, Intelligent‑Tiering, Infrequent Access, Glacier, Glacier Deep Archive), lifecycle policies, versioning, encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, logging, replication (Cross‑Region and Cross‑Account), data immutability (Object Lock/WORM), and integrations with AWS analytics, compute, and backup services. It is commonly used to store medical images, EHR backups, genomics data, logs, and analytics datasets and supports compliance frameworks (e.g., HIPAA) when configured appropriately.",
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"Amazon CloudFront",
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"Sysco",
"Bristol Myers Squibb",
"GE",
"Siemens",
"Georgia-Pacific",
"GE Healthcare",
"Pomelo",
"Ambra Health",
"Celgene",
"Nasdaq",
"Autodesk",
"Zalando",
"Teespring",
"AppsFlyer",
"SimilarWeb",
"Photobox",
"Union Bank (UnionBank)",
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"Highly reliable and scalable — we run our data lake on S3 without worrying about capacity.",
"Excellent durability and availability; once set up, it just works.",
"Powerful cost optimization with Intelligent-Tiering and Glacier, saved us a lot on long-term storage.",
"Steep learning curve for newcomers; IAM, policies and lifecycle rules can be confusing.",
"Great integration with the rest of the AWS ecosystem and many third-party analytics tools.",
"Pricing can be hard to estimate — many small charges (requests, egress) add up if you're not careful.",
"Object lifecycle and storage class options make archival and compliance much simpler.",
"Support can be hit-or-miss unless you have a higher-tier support plan.",
"S3 performance is solid for large-scale analytics workloads and serving static content.",
"Using S3 Glacier Deep Archive massively reduced archival costs but retrieval planning is required."
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