The document discusses updates to Amazon S3 storage services, including:
1) Increased data transfer growth on S3 of 120% year-over-year from Q2 2014 to Q2 2015.
2) The introduction of a new S3 storage class called Standard-Infrequent Access (S3-IA) which provides lower fees than S3 Standard but with a 99.9% availability service level agreement.
3) Guidance on selecting the appropriate S3 storage class based on data access frequency and cost, including S3, S3-IA, and Glacier.
4. Standard-Infrequent Access (SIA) Definition
What’s the same?
Access: Almost identical to S3 Standard with same buckets and URLs
Durability: 11 9’s, same as S3 Standard
Performance: Same characteristics as S3 Standard; low latency, high
throughput
What’s different?
Availability: Designed for 99.9%, SLA of 99%
Cost: Lower capacity fees, retrieval fees, minimum object size and
retention
5. Selecting the right Storage class for your needs
S3
S3-IA
Glacier
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Available
S3: 99.99%
S3-IA: 99.9%
Performant
Low Latency
High Throughput
Secure
SSE, client
encryption, IAM
integration
Event
Notifications
SQS, SNS, and
Lambda
Versioning
Keep multiple
copies
automatically
Cross Region
Replication
Common
Namespace
Define storage
class per object
Durable
99.999999999%
Scalable
Elastic capacity
No preset limits
“Hot” Data
Active and/or
Temporary Data
“Warm” Data
Infrequently
Accessed Data
“Cold” Data
Archive and
Compliance Data
6. Selecting the right Storage class for your needs
S3
S3-IA
Glacier
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Available
S3: 99.99%
S3-IA: 99.9%
Performant
Low Latency
High Throughput
≥ 30 Days≥ 128K
≥ 90 Days
Durable
99.999999999%
Scalable
Elastic capacity
No preset limits
> 0K$0.007/GB per month
$0.0125/GB per month
“Hot” Data
Active and/or
Temporary Data
“Warm” Data
Infrequently
Accessed Data
“Cold” Data
Archive and
Compliance Data
≥ 0 Days> 0K$0.0275 - $0.03/GB per
month
3 – 5 Hrs
$0.01/GB retrieval
$0.01/GB retrieval < 5%
7. Object Storage Use Cases
S3
S3-IA
Glacier
Cloud
Applications
Big Data
Analytics
Content
Distribution
Primary Data
File Sync &
Share
Active
Archive
Enterprise
Backup
Media
Transcoding
Disaster Recovery /
Geo Redundancy
Deep /
Offline
Archives
Tape Vaulting
Replacement
WORM
Compliant
Data
Temporary &
Small
Objects
9. S3 Storage Metrics
Monitor and set alarms on
Amazon S3 storage usage
through CloudWatch
Supported metrics include:
Total bytes for Standard Storage
Total bytes for Reduced-Redundancy Storage
(RRS)
Total bytes for Reduced-Redundancy Storage
(S3-IA)
Total number of objects for a given S3 bucket.
18. Snowball – Petabyte Scale Data Transport
Service
50 TB
E Ink Shipping Label
Ruggedized Case “8.5G Impact”
Rain & Dust Resistant
Tamper Resistant Case & Electronics
All Data Encrypted End-to-end
Encryption Keys Managed Off-Device
20. What does it cost?
• $200 / job plus shipping
• Includes 10 days to fill the device at your site
• $15/day after the tenth day on site
• Standard Amazon S3 charges apply
• $0.03/GB to transfer data out
• $0.00/GB to transfer data in
21. How fast is that truck full of drives?
• Less than 1 day to transfer 250TB via 5x10G connections with 5
Snowballs, less than 1 week including shipping
• Number of days to transfer 250TB via the Internet at typical
utilizations
Internet Connection Speed
Utilization 1Gbps 500Mbps 300Mbps 150Mbps
25% 95 190 316 632
50% 47 95 158 316
75% 32 63 105 211