Why should S3 Customers start with Intelligent Tier?
AWS Customers rely on S3 heavily as an object store, data lake, repository for all things including snapshots, backups, configurations, prebuilt code artifacts etc. Since the default S3 storage access tier is Standard and as things start to accumulate, the cost also starts increasing based on the amount of used storage. This post goes into why Intelligent Tier (" INT ") should be considered as first choice for storage class. About Intelligent Tier S3 has multiple storage classes based on the access patterns and price. Standard S3 Intelligent Tier Standard-Infrequent Access One Zone Infrequent Access Glacier Glacier Deep Archive The Intelligent Tier class (introduced in 2018) is designed to optimize costs by automatically moving data to the most cost-effective access tiers based on the access patterns. For a small added cost of monitoring objects and automation fee (monthly charge of $2.5 for every million objects monitored), Intelligent tier would automatically move the o...