Amazon S3

Which Amazon S3 Storage Class Is The Right One to Use?

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Question

My company is switching cloud providers and is moving object storage to Amazon S3. Can you help explain the different S3 storage classes?

Response

First, note that all classes aside from S3 One Zone-IA stores data in at least 3 AZs.