A data warehouse generally contains only structured or semi-structured data, whereas a data lake contains the whole shebang: structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. … In terms of AWS, the most common implementation of this is using S3 as the data lake and Redshift as the data warehouse.

Is S3 a data lake or data warehouse?

The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object storage service ideal for building a data lake. With nearly unlimited scalability, an Amazon S3 data lake enables enterprises to seamlessly scale storage from gigabytes to petabytes of content, paying only for what is used.

What type of storage is S3?

Amazon S3 is object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere. It’s a simple storage service that offers industry leading durability, availability, performance, security, and virtually unlimited scalability at very low costs.