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About SoftNAS® S3 Disks

SoftNAS® Disks are storage devices created from local storage devices or Amazon S3 Cloud Disks.

Amazon S3 Cloud Disks

Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet, specifically designed to make web-scale computing easier. Amazon S3 and SoftNAS S3 Cloud Disks provide access to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives anyone access to the same highly scalable, reliable, secure, fast, inexpensive infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to customers.

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Amazon S3 storage subscription costs are industry-competitive, and the EC2 offerings integrate smoothly with SoftNAS® Buurst® solutions. Consult Amazon S3 product information for latest details and pricing.
S3 Cloud Disks can also be copied for long-term archive storage into AWS Glacier (functionality that is built into the AWS console).

It is strongly recommended that users review S3 Cloud Disk Best Practices prior to creating their instances.


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