Claim: Amazon Web Services featured services for storing.

Amazon S3 -LRB- Simple Storage Service -RRB- is a web service offered by Amazon Web Services . Amazon S3 provides storage through web services interfaces -LRB- REST , SOAP , and BitTorrent -RRB- . Amazon launched S3 on its fifth publicly available web service , in the United States in March 2006 and in Europe in November 2007 .   Amazon says that S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its own global e-commerce network .   Amazon S3 is reported to store more than 2 trillion objects . This is up from 10 billion as of October 2007 , 14 billion in January 2008 , 29 billion in October 2008 , 52 billion in March 2009 , 64 billion objects in August 2009 , and 102 billion objects in March 2010 . S3 uses include web hosting , image hosting , and storage for backup systems . S3 guarantees 99.9 % monthly uptime service-level agreement -LRB- SLA -RRB- , that is , not more than 43 minutes of downtime per month .