S3-EDI

S3 (EDI) is Amazon Simple Storage Service — AWS object storage offering durable (11×9) and inexpensive storage for archived EDI payloads (MDN, INVOIC, acknowledgments) and SFTP drop-zone buckets.

Definition

S3 offers 4 tiers (Standard, Standard-IA, Glacier Instant, Glacier Deep Archive) and an event-driven processing model (S3 → SQS / Lambda) ideal for EDI pipelines. Versioning, cross-region replication, SSE-S3/SSE-KMS encryption are native.

Origin

Launched by AWS in March 2006 — the flagship service of the first cloud wave. S3 API compatibility is now near-universal (Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, MinIO).

Use

An EDI broker drops every validated INVOIC into s3://edi-prod/inbound/INVOIC/{year}/{month}/{day}/. A Lifecycle rule moves payloads after 90 days to Glacier Instant; after 7 years to Glacier Deep Archive. Compliant with French 10-year fiscal retention.

Related terms

• Audit trail — consumer.
• SFTP — inbound transport.
• AWS SQS — downstream events.
• Kafka — streaming alternative.