Amazon simple storage service Lifecycle
S3 Durability and Availability Amazon simple storage service Lifecycle offers more than one class of storage for your objects. The class you choose will depend on how critical it is that the data survives no matter what (durability), how quickly you might need to retrieve it (availability), and how much money you have to spend. 1. Durability S3 measures durability as a percentage. For instance, the 99.999999999 percent durability guarantee for most S3 classes and Amazon Glacier is as follows: “. . . corresponds to an average annual expected loss of 0.000000001% of objects. For example , if you store 10,000,000 objects with Amazon S3, you can on average expect to incur a loss of a single object once every 10,000 years.” Source: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs In other words, realistically, there’s pretty much no way that you can possibly lose data stored on one of the standard S3/Glacier platforms because of infrastructure failure. However, it woul...