Monitor and optimize S3 storage with Amazon S3 Storage Lens metrics

Amazon S3's scalable object storage allows users to store and manage billions of objects across multiple AWS accounts, regions, and storage classes. S3 Storage Lens provides 29 useful metrics that give deeper visibility into S3 usage and activity across an entire organization. Datadog has partnered with AWS to integrate S3 Storage Lens metrics for enhanced S3 storage monitoring. This integration helps users monitor S3 storage trends alongside other infrastructure and applications, optimize S3 costs, and ensure data protection best practices are followed. The out-of-the-box dashboard allows users to visualize and explore all S3 Storage Lens metrics, including the number of objects and bytes stored in S3 over time. Users can customize their dashboards to add context to their S3 Storage Lens metrics by tracking the performance of other AWS services alongside them. The integration also helps users understand how their organization accesses data in S3, which can be useful for further optimizing costs. Additionally, it provides a quick summary of the percentage of total storage that is encrypted, replicated, and protected with an object lock, allowing users to monitor these metrics over time and create alerts if necessary.