Is S3 File Based Storage

Outside of the bucket structure, which is there to provide admin and security multitenancy, the operation of S3 is a flat structure with no equivalent of the file structure hierarchy seen with NFS-based storage, common internet file system (CIFS)-based storage or SMB-based storage.

Is S3 a file storage?

Amazon S3 is an object storage service, which differs from other types of cloud computing storage types, such as block and file storage. Each object is stored as a file with its metadata included. The object is also given an ID number. Applications use this ID number to access objects.

What type of storage is AWS S3?

Amazon S3 is object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere. It’s a simple storage service that offers industry leading durability, availability, performance, security, and virtually unlimited scalability at very low costs.