AWS Cloud Architecture•Part 4: Storage, Content Delivery & Databases (36 - 50)
S3 Storage Classes and Lifecycle Rules.
In Simple Words:
- Standard: Frequently accessed data, millisecond retrieval.
- Intelligent-Tiering: Automatically shifts objects between hot and cold tiers based on access patterns with no retrieval fees.
- Standard-IA: Infrequently accessed; lower storage cost, small per-GB retrieval fee.
- Glacier Flexible / Deep Archive: Deep archival storage; lowest cost, retrieval times from minutes to 12 hours.
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# Uploading directly to Intelligent-Tiering via AWS CLI:
aws s3 cp backup.tar.gz s3://my-bucket/backup.tar.gz --storage-class INTELLIGENT_TIERING