S3 Features: Analytics and Inventory Overview

S3 Analytics

S3 Analytics feature automatically identifies infrequent access patterns to help transition storage to S3-IA or Glacier.

Storage class analysis also provides daily visualizations of storage usage on the Management Console and can be exported to a S3 bucket to analyze using any BI tools such as AWS QuickSight.

You can configure a storage class analysis policy to monitor an entire bucket, a prefix, or object tag.

You can use the AWS Management Console (in the “Management” tab) or the S3 PUT Bucket Analytics API to configure a Storage Class Analysis policy. Storage Class Analysis is updated on a daily basis.

S3 Inventory

S3 Inventory provides a CSV flat-file output of all the objects (and their metadata) within your S3 bucket or a subset of the objects under a shared prefix, on a daily or weekly basis for an S3 bucket or a shared prefix.

It provides a scheduled alternative to Amazon S3’s synchronous List API.

As part of configuration you can specify a destination S3 bucket for inventory, output file output format (CSV), and specific object metadata necessary, such as: object name, size, last modified date.

Can use the AWS Management Console or the PUT Bucket Inventory API to configure.