Cloud Computing Intermediate

What is S3 (Simple Storage Service)?

An AWS object storage service that stores and retrieves any amount of data from anywhere on the web.

Amazon S3 stores data as objects in buckets. Objects can be any type of file, up to 5TB each. S3 provides 99.999999999% (11 nines) durability and various storage classes for different access patterns and costs.

Storage classes include Standard (frequent access), Intelligent-Tiering (automatic optimization), Glacier (archival), and One Zone-IA (infrequent access). S3 supports versioning, lifecycle policies, encryption, and static website hosting.

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Microsoft's cloud computing platform offering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services for building, deploying, and managing applications.

A distributed computing paradigm that processes data near the source of generation rather than in a centralized cloud data center.

PaaS (Platform as a Service)

A cloud service model that provides a platform for developers to build, deploy, and manage applications without managing infrastructure.

IAM (Identity and Access Management)

A framework for managing digital identities and controlling who can access which cloud resources and services.

SLA (Service Level Agreement)

A formal agreement between a service provider and customer defining guaranteed levels of service availability and performance.

Identity and Access Management services that control who can access cloud resources and what actions they can perform.

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