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It is accessible through a web service interface and provides authentication
procedures to protect against unauthorized access.
11.4.2 Amazon Simple Storage Service
Amazon Simple Storage Service known as Amazon S3, is the storage for the
Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Amazon S3 provides a simple web service interface that can be used to store
and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.
Itgives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, secure,
fast, inexpensive infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global net-
work of websites. The service aims to maximize benets of scale and to pass
those benets on to developers.