AWS S3 Storage Lens: Analyze, Optimize, and Protect Your Storage
As your AWS cloud footprint expands, managing storage efficiently across multiple regions, accounts, and buckets becomes a critical challenge. Enter Amazon S3 Storage Lens — a robust solution designed to help you understand, analyze, and optimize your S3 storage usage across your entire AWS organization.
In this article, we’ll dive deep into how S3 Storage Lens can empower you to discover storage anomalies, identify cost efficiencies, and implement data protection best practices, with detailed metrics and customizable dashboards.
What Is S3 Storage Lens?
S3 Storage Lens is a powerful, fully managed analytics feature for Amazon S3 that provides 30 days of usage and activity metrics, allowing you to visualize and optimize storage at scale. It can aggregate data at multiple levels, including the organization, specific accounts, regions, buckets, or even prefixes.
S3 Storage Lens provides a default dashboard that offers a summarized view of your storage metrics, but you can also create custom dashboards to tailor the data to your specific needs.
Key features include:
- Default or Custom Dashboards: Preconfigured dashboards by Amazon S3 or the ability to build your own.
- Exportable Metrics: You can configure Storage Lens to export daily metrics to an S3 bucket in CSV or Parquet formats.
