# Amazon S3

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Also called: S3, AWS S3, S3 bucket, S3 buckets, Simple Storage Service

[Amazon Web Services](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/aws)' [object storage](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/object-storage). Files are kept in buckets and can be very large. Many other storage services copy its way of working.

**For example:** A startup saves every customer upload to an Amazon S3 bucket and keeps [backups](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/backup) in a second region.

Official site: <https://aws.amazon.com/s3/>

## Connects to (5)

- [Object storage](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/object-storage): A cloud service for storing files such as images, videos and documents.
- [Amazon Web Services](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/aws): Amazon's cloud provider, usually called AWS.
- [Cloudflare R2](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cloudflare-r2): Cloudflare's object storage for files such as images and video.
- [Backup](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/backup): A copy of data kept so it can be recovered if the original is lost or damaged.
- [Region](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/region): A geographic location where a cloud provider groups its data centers.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/amazon-s3