Amazon S3

Amazon, Seattle, Washington, United States

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

It supports multiple storage classes, including Standard, Infrequent Access, and Glacier tiers, strong read-after-write consistency, automatic encryption, fine-grained access controls, versioning, cross-region replication, and storage class analysis.

Due to its widespread use, the Amazon S3 API has become the de facto standard for cloud storage compatibility.

According to our data, Amazon S3 is the most popular cloud storage service on the web.
It has 76.3% of the cloud storage market share and is detected on 3% of all websites.

πŸ’Έ Pricing

Amazon S3 is available in both free and paid versions.

Free tier βœ”οΈ5GB of Standard storage + 20,000 GET requests + 2,000 PUT requests + 100GB of data transfer out/month
Standard storage
First 50 TB/month$0.023/GB
Next 450 TB/month$0.022/GB
Over 500 TB/month$0.021 per GB
Infrequent Access Tier/month$0.0125/GB
Archive Instant Access Tier/month$0.004/GB
Requests
PUT, COPY, POST, LIST (per 1,000)$0.005
GET, SELECT (per 1,000)$0.0004
Data transfer In (per month)Free
Data transfer Out (per month)
Free version βœ”οΈ100 GB for all AWS services
First 10 TB$0.09/GB
Next 40 TB$0.085/GB
Next 100 TB$0.07/GB
> 150 TB$0.05/GB

πŸ“Š Rankings and Market Share

πŸ† Amazon S3 Awards

⚑ Sites Using Amazon S3

We have data on 93,760 websites that use the Amazon S3 cloud storage service. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.

The highest rated site using Amazon S3 is x.com.

#WebsiteRankCountryLanguage
1 x.com #12 English
2 github.com #13 United States English
3 pinterest.com #15 English
4 tiktok.com #18 Cayman Islands English
5 vimeo.com #23 United States English
6 dropbox.com #35 United States English
7 wyze.com #49 English
8 reuters.com #84 Switzerland English
9 snapchat.com #98 American English
10 washingtonpost.com #104 English
11 uber.com #117 United States English
12 npr.org #125 English
13 tripadvisor.com #156 United Kingdom American English
14 coupang.com #160 Korean
15 zillow.com #170 English
16 notion.com #186 United States American English
17 coursera.org #189 English
18 go.com #199 English
19 roblox.com #224 United States English
20 wise.com #231 United Kingdom American English

πŸ“ˆ Usage Statistics

Most of the sites that use Amazon S3:

Most of the sites using Amazon S3 are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

  • United States 25.7%
  • United Kingdom 9.7%
  • Netherlands 5.4%
  • Japan 4.9%
  • Brazil 4.7%
  • Germany 4.7%
  • Australia 4.7%
  • India 3.5%
  • Canada 3.4%
  • Other 33.3%

Most Amazon S3 users speak English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

  • English 71.6%
  • Spanish 4.5%
  • Portuguese 3.6%
  • German 3.4%
  • Japanese 3.3%
  • French 2.2%
  • Dutch 1.7%
  • Italian 1.5%
  • Korean 0.8%
  • Other 7.4%

The Amazon S3 cloud storage service is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.

  • .com 52.1%
  • .org 6.1%
  • .co.uk 3.2%
  • .com.br 2.7%
  • .com.au 2.3%
  • .de 2.1%
  • .net 2.1%
  • .nl 1.3%
  • .ca 1.3%
  • Other 26.8%

The primary market segments for websites utilizing Amazon S3 include business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising.

  • Business 15.6%
  • Online Shopping 14.1%
  • Marketing/Merchandising 10.4%
  • Education/Reference 5%
  • Sports 5%
  • Internet Services 4.4%
  • Entertainment 4.2%
  • Fashion/Beauty 4.2%
  • Blogs/Wiki 3.8%
  • Other 33.3%

πŸ•΅οΈ Similar Technologies

These are some of the best Amazon S3 alternatives.

RankName
2
Google Cloud Storage
Mountain View, California, United States

A RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google's infrastructure.

Free tier$$$
4
Cloud Storage for Firebase
Mountain View, California, United States

A powerful, simple, and cost-effective object storage service powered by Google Cloud Storage.

Free tier$$$
5
Azure Storage
Redmond, Washington, United States

Offers highly available, massively scalable, durable, and secure storage for a variety of data objects in the cloud.

Free tier$$$
6
Cloudflare R2
San Francisco, California, United States

A globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage service designed to store large amounts of unstructured data without charging egress bandwidth fees.

Free tier$$$
8
Ceph
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

An open-source distributed storage platform that links multiple servers into a single, scalable storage cluster for object, block, and file storage.

FreeOpen source

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πŸ’¬ Frequently Asked Questions

What is the company behind Amazon S3?

Amazon S3 is owned by Amazon.com, Inc., headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Does Amazon S3 offer a free plan?

Yes, there is a free version with limited functionality.

Which country uses Amazon S3 the most?

The majority of Amazon S3 users are from the United States.

Who uses Amazon S3?

According to our data, Amazon S3 is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as x.com, github.com, and pinterest.com.

Is Amazon S3 used on government websites?

Overall, we found Amazon S3 on 110 government sites in the United States.

Do academic institutions use Amazon S3?

Yes, quite a few! In total, we know of 264 academic websites in the United States that use Amazon S3.

How does Amazon S3 compare to its competitors?

Amazon S3 is the most popular cloud storage service on the market, outranking all others.

What are the alternatives to Amazon S3?

Alternatives and possible competitors to Amazon S3 may include Google Cloud Storage, Cloud Storage for Firebase, and Azure Storage.

πŸ‘‰ See Also

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