Start with Amazon S3 (AWS ecosystem + governance)
Amazon S3 is the default starting point for object storage on AWS and the de facto standard that most S3-compatible alternatives compare themselves against. If your compute workloads run on AWS, S3's zero-egress-fee within the same region, deep IAM integration, and broad service compatibility (EC2, Lambda, ECS, CloudFront) make it the natural choice. The cost to watch is egress to the internet — at $0.09/GB, serving assets directly from S3 without CloudFront becomes expensive quickly for read-heavy or media-heavy applications.
- Recommendation: Amazon S3
Recommended starting points
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Amazon S3
Hyperscaler object storage standard for unstructured data with deep AWS integrations, broad tooling support, and multiple storage classes. Total cost is often driven by egress and requests, not storag
Why this recommendation
Amazon S3 is the default starting point for object storage on AWS and the de facto standard that most S3-compatible alternatives compare themselves against. If your compute workloads run on AWS, S3's zero-egress-fee within the same region, deep IAM integration, and broad service compatibility (EC2, Lambda, ECS, CloudFront) make it the natural choice. The cost to watch is egress to the internet — at $0.09/GB, serving assets directly from S3 without CloudFront becomes expensive quickly for read-heavy or media-heavy applications.