Cloud//AWS//S3

Amazon's object storage service. The original and most widely used cloud storage — virtually every provider copies its API.

Amazon's object storage service. The original and most widely used cloud storage — virtually every provider copies its API.

Stores files (objects) in buckets. Any size, any type.

Pricing: storage + requests + egress (bandwidth). The egress fees are the controversial part — serving files to users gets expensive at scale.

So ubiquitous that "S3-compatible" became a standard. Tools built for S3 work with R2, MinIO, Backblaze B2, etc.