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S3 bucket with object lock is as offline and convenient as it gets
by randoramax 6y ago
S3 bucket with object lock is as offline and convenient as it gets
- reaperducer 6y agoI don't know much about S3, but isn't S3, by definition, online, not offline?
- zxcvbn4038 6y agoI’ve always wondered if Amazon backs up S3. I don’t think they explicitly say but I get the impression that it is the user’s responsibility to replicate to a second region to guard against data loss so I am guessing not. Object Lock wouldn’t protect against an S3 failure.
- count 6y agoThey say it's designed to provide significant durability : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/DataDurability.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/DataDurabili... (99.999999999% durable over a year per object, and able to sustain data loss in 2 facilities). Given the peeks that amazon has provided into the scale of S3, I don't know if you CAN 'back it up'.
- danielheath 6y agoAs far as I can tell it’s replicated (by default - see “reduced redundancy storage”), not backed up.
- csydas 6y agoAWS S3 (and a few compliant providers) offer immutable options, both in governance/compliance mode. Allegedly, compliance mode is unalterable by any account period, I guess the equivalent of the immutable attribute without an overriding account. I'm not immediately familiar with any literature on attacks on this feature, but I've also not searched hard; however, I know from my clients that it's an accepted form of WORM, and that cloud storages like S3 are considered in the same vein as tape when immutability is in play. I suppose it will be a case in the future that proves the efficacy of AWS/Azure/s3 providers, but for now, a lot of regulatory policies for 3-2-1 allow for such storage to fulfill the "2" part of the 3-2-1 rule.
- wtracy 6y agoIf you're going to pitch an AWS service as "offline", then pitch Glacier.