# Amazon Simple Storage Service Documentation

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is storage for the internet. You can use Amazon S3 to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web.

## Amazon S3

Use Amazon S3 to store, manage, analyze, and protect any amount of data for virtually any use case, such as data lakes, cloud-native applications, and mobile apps.

- [User Guide](/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/): Provides detailed information and instructions for getting started, developing, and working with Amazon S3 using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, and REST API.
- [API Reference](/AmazonS3/latest/API/Welcome.html): Describes all the Amazon S3 API operations in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.

## Amazon Glacier

Use Amazon Glacier for data archiving use cases and the lowest cost archive storage in the cloud.

- [Developer Guide](/amazonglacier/latest/dev/): Provides detailed information about setting up and working with Amazon Glacier using the REST API and the AWS SDK for Java and AWS SDK for .NET.

## Amazon S3 on Outposts

Use Amazon S3 on Outposts for local data processing and data residency use cases in your on-premises AWS Outposts environment.

- [User Guide](/AmazonS3/latest/s3-outposts/): Provides detailed information and instructions for getting started, developing, and working with Amazon S3 on Outposts using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, and REST API.

## Best Practices

Use best practice guidance from AWS experts—AWS Solutions Architects, Professional Services Consultants, and Partners—to develop your architecture.

- [Architecture Center: Storage Best Practices](https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/storage/?docs3_bp1): Browse best practices for using AWS object storage, file storage, and block storage services, and backup and data migration options that help build the foundation of your cloud IT architecture.

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