S3 workloads

Suitable workloads for S3

• Static Web Pages: Hosting static web pages, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as S3 enables efficient delivery of web content.
• Data archiving: storing archival data and backups, as S3 provides cost-effective and durable storage.
• Big Data and Analytics: Store large data sets used for Big Data analytics and data warehousing.
• Content Delivery Network (CDN): Using S3 as a storage location for content distributed through a CDN to deliver content quickly and efficiently around the world.
• Media and file storage: Hosting multimedia files such as images, videos, and audio files for fast and reliable retrieval.

Unsuitable workloads for S3

• Real-time databases: S3 is object-based and is not well suited for applications that require real-time database access.
• Applications with high latency sensitivity: Applications that require extremely low latency (<10ms) may be affected by S3’s fundamental latency.
• Virtual machines: Storage of virtual machines in S3 is not recommended.
• Transaction-based applications: Applications that require many transactions or writes per second may be inefficient due to the basic structure of S3. High IOPS applications: Applications that require a high number of input/output operations per second.