# How To Choose the Right Class for AWS S3 Storage

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**Category:** AWS Storage Discussion\
**Created:** [December 27, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://awshq.com/t/how-to-choose-the-right-class-for-aws-s3-storage/26 "2025-12-27T12:59:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martha](https://awshq.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Martha](https://awshq.com/u/Martha)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://awshq.com/t/how-to-choose-the-right-class-for-aws-s3-storage/26/1 "2025-12-27T12:59:25Z")

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S3 can store huge amounts of data, but it has different storage classes like Standard, Infrequent Access, and Glacier. How do you choose the right class? Does cost always outweigh access speed when choosing the storage?

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**Author:** ![Nomad](https://awshq.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nomad](https://awshq.com/u/Nomad)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://awshq.com/t/how-to-choose-the-right-class-for-aws-s3-storage/26/2 "2025-12-27T14:20:16Z")

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I think choosing the right class for AWS storage depends on your necessity. If your projects need a lot of storage you should go for higher plan. You also need to check if the cost is affordable to you or not.

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**Author:** ![admin1](https://awshq.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@admin1](https://awshq.com/u/admin1)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://awshq.com/t/how-to-choose-the-right-class-for-aws-s3-storage/26/3 "2025-12-27T17:12:23Z")

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> [@Martha](#):
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> S3 can store huge amounts of data, but it has different storage classes like Standard, Infrequent Access, and Glacier. How do you choose the right class? Does cost always outweigh access speed when choosing the storage?

It really depends on your use case.

For archival data (family pictures, etc), then you want the cheapest storage possible (Glacier). However, if you need to store “hot” data that you cannot afford to lose, then you would want AWS S3 standard, which has %99.99999999 durability, and will never be lost.

If you can share more about your use case, I am sure we can point you in the right direction.