I listened to a Tech Talk on AWS S3 recently. They covered some high-level stuff, and then some low-level stuff.
High-Level (S3 Storage Classes)
- Amazon S3 Standard – Active Data (S)
- Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access Data (SIA)
- Amazon Glacier – Archive Data
Low-Level (Storage Class Analysis)
- Use storage class analysis to determine when to move from (S) to (SIA)
- Use to create a life cycle transition policy based on the data
- Allows you to deep dive into buckets, tags, prefix, etc…
- Allows you to measure object age
