Residents upload permit-application PDFs that the city must store as durable files accessed by key, not as a mounted OS disk. Which AWS storage service fits this object-storage use case?
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Short Explanation
PDFs as files keyed by name scream object storage, and Amazon S3 is the go-to for that. You are not attaching a disk to one server—you are dropping objects into durable buckets apps can reach over the API. EBS is for block disks on EC2; S3 is for the citizen upload pile.
Full Explanation
Amazon S3 provides durable object storage accessed by bucket and key, which matches citizen-uploaded PDFs and similar unstructured files. Object storage is not presented as a block device for a single instance's file system. Amazon EBS and instance store address block storage for EC2; ElastiCache is an in-memory cache or data store, not the system of record for municipal document archives.