Amazon S3 Storage Lens: Analyzing & Optimizing S3 Storage

Amazon S3 Storage Lens is a powerful tool that helps analyze, optimize, and monitor storage usage across an entire AWS Organization. It provides insights into storage trends, cost efficiencies, and data protection best practices to improve S3 usage.

Key Features of S3 Storage Lens

• Aggregates storage metrics at multiple levels:
  • Organization-wide, account-specific, region-specific, bucket-specific, or even prefix-level.
• Provides 30-day usage and activity metrics.
• Includes default and custom dashboards.
• Exports reports in CSV or Parquet format to an S3 bucket.

✅ Benefit: Helps identify anomalies, cost-saving opportunities, and security gaps in S3 storage.

S3 Storage Lens Dashboards

1. Default Dashboard

• Pre-configured by AWS.
• Displays data across multiple regions and accounts.
• Cannot be deleted, but can be disabled.
• Provides a high-level summary of storage trends.

2. Custom Dashboards

• Users can create custom dashboards with specific filters (regions, accounts, buckets, storage classes).
• Useful for detailed custom analysis and tracking.

✅ Benefit: Offers centralized storage insights for better monitoring and cost control.