Which AWS service is best for Static files

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Which AWS service is best for static content - HTML, JavaScript, Images, JSON, PDF, Excel, Text files and Application Logs.

S3 or EFS or EBS

Price is not an issue, but looking for most reliable, secure and high throughput (Mine is US only webapp).

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Anton Zorin On

S3 is the right and the most obvious choice here. Mainly because of its price (up to 10 times cheaper compared with EFS and up to 4 times cheaper compared with EBS) but secondly because it's designed to serve static website (or static content).

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Sergey Kovalev On

[Trying not to be opinionated here]

Generally speaking, S3 is the default choice for these criteria.

S3 is:

  • way cheaper than EFS
  • more durable than EBS (using standard class)
  • (somewhat) maintenance-free, doesn't require deploying instances etc.
  • has built-in security features that would be enough for most applications
  • works well with CloudFront for distribution and acceleration