Lower your storage cost for infrequently access data by leveraging the new Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (Standard - IA) storage class. Amazon S3 Standard-IA is an Amazon S3 storage class for data that is accessed less frequently, but requires rapid access when needed. Standard-IA offers the high durability, throughput, and low latency of Amazon S3 Standard, with a low per GB storage price and per GB retrieval fee. We will provide an overview of Amazon S3 Standard-IA storage class. We will then talk through detailed characteristics of Amazon S3 Standard-IA. We will also discuss how you can best leverage the different storage classes that Amazon S3 has to offer to get the most of your data on Amazon S3. Learning Objectives: Understand the different storage classes Amazon S3 has to offer Learn details about Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access storage class Learn about the different management capabilities of Amazon S3 Standard-IA storage class Learn about pricing for Amazon S3 Standard-IA Who Should Attend: Developers, IT professional, system administrators, Amazon S3 users

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Omair Gillani,
Senior Product Manager, Amazon S3
November 18th 2015
Amazon S3:
Standard-Infrequent Access
A new storage class for Amazon S3

2. T T+3 days T+5 days T+ 15 days T + 25 days T + 30 days T + 60 days T + 90 days T + 150 days T + 250 days T + 365 days
Data characteristics evolve over timeAccess
Frequency
Access frequency falls for cold data

3. Choice of storage classes on Amazon S3
Standard
Active data Archive dataInfrequently accessed data
Standard –
Infrequent Access
Amazon Glacier
S3
new

4. 11 9’s of Durability Designed for
99.9% availability
Durable Available
Same throughput as
Amazon S3 Standard storage
High performance
Standard-Infrequent Access storage
Infrequently accessed data

5. Server-side encryption
Use your encryption keys
KMS managed encryption keys
Secure
Lifecycle management
Versioning
Event notifications
Metrics
Integrated
No impact on user experience
Simple REST API
Single bucket
Easy to use
Standard-Infrequent Access storage
Infrequently accessed data

6. Some use cases have different requirements
File Sync & Share +
Consumer File
Storage
Backup and Archive +
Disaster Recovery
Log data

7. Long Lived
>30 Days
Large Objects
>128 K
Smaller objects will
be charged for
128KB of storage
Early delete fee if
removed in less
than 30 days
Standard-Infrequent Access Storage

8. Transition Standard to Standard-IA
Transition Standard-IA to Amazon Glacier storage
Expiration lifecycle policy
Versioning support
Integrated with lifecycle
Standard-Infrequent Access storage
Integrated: Lifecycle management

9. Lifecycle policy
Standard Storage -> Standard-IA
<LifecycleConfiguration>
<Rule>
<ID>sample-rule</ID>
<Prefix>documents/</Prefix>
<Status>Enabled</Status>
<Transition>
<Days>30</Days>
<StorageClass>STANDARD-IA</StorageClass>
</Transition>
<Transition>
<Days>365</Days>
<StorageClass>GLACIER</StorageClass>
</Transition>
</Rule>
</LifecycleConfiguration>
Lifecycle Policies

10. Setup lifecycle policy

11. Transition older videos to Standard-IA

12. Amazon S3 event notifications for Standard-IA
PUT, POST, Delete, Copy, or Multipart Upload
SNS topic
SQS queue
Lambda function
Events
Events

13. Cross-Region Replication for S3
Automated, fast, and reliable asynchronous replication of data across AWS regions
Replicate data into Standard-IA or Glacier
S3 S3

14. Cross-Region Replication for S3
Sample policy to replicate objects to Standard-IA

15. Amazon S3 storage metrics
Understand your Amazon S3 buckets
Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon S3
Bucket-level metrics include:
• Total bytes for Standard storage
• Total bytes for Standard-IA storage
• Total bytes for Reduced-Redundancy storage
• Total number of objects for a given S3 bucket
Alarm on S3 metrics
• Set thresholds for alarms
Daily metrics
• Metrics emitted daily, after midnight GMT

16. Choice of storage classes
S3

17. Thank you!