Modified 2 August 2026

AI glossary

S3

Amazon's "Simple Storage Service" — the original cloud object storage, launched 2006. Standard place to store files for AI applications: training data, model weights, generated images. "S3-compatible API" has become a de facto standard implemented by Cloudflare R2, MinIO and others.

Related terms

• Bucket
• CLOUD Act
• Data sovereignty

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