Use cases

Performance and cost optimization

Balancing cloud storage performance and storage cost is crucial for organizations. You can use this Guidance to help you optimize your storage infrastructure with the features that the Amazon S3 service offers. With tagging, lifecycle configurations, and a variety of storage classes, you can improve your performance while minimizing costs.

Cloud archiving

Many organizations store their most fundamental asset—their data—in locations that are slow to retrieve and lack flexibility. You can use this Guidance to help you automate, monitor, and seamlessly move your data when and where you need it.