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Glossary: Resilience and Recovery

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Also written: S3

Amazon Web Services' cloud object storage service, used to store files and backups. Its Object Lock feature can make backups immutable: they are stored write once, read many (WORM), so no one can change or delete them until a set retention period ends.

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object lockAWS (Amazon Web Services)WORM (write once, read many)