Find out the size of your Amazon S3 buckets
Monitoring key storage metrics is an important part of most enterprise data governance strategies, for customers of any size. Data and analytics leaders also keenly focus on cost-optimized data management as they map out their organizations’ digital futures. A robust data management and monitoring strategy can unlock several advantages for customers laying the foundation for their overall cost optimization strategy, like providing visibility on key metrics that can help clarify the ideal data-management methods for your organization.
Amazon Simple Storage Service is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Amazon S3 bucket is a container for objects, aka files. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, cloud-native applications, backups, archive, machine learning, and analytics.
The total volume of data and number of objects you can store in an Amazon S3 bucket is virtually unlimited. AWS provides various tools that you can use to monitor S3 storage size and other key usage metrics. In this blog, we walk you through six different methods to find the storage size of a single Amazon S3 bucket or all S3 buckets spread across different regions in your AWS account:
- Using the Amazon S3 console
- Using S3 Storage Lens
- Using Amazon CloudWatch
- Using Amazon S3 Inventory
- Using AWS Command Line Interface
- Using a custom script (for real-time S3 bucket storage size)
With these methods, monitoring a basic key storage metric, the amount of data stored, is quick work, making your storage-management operation that much easier!
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