REST API with S3 Integration

Storage service

Amazon S3 provides a great combination of availability, latency, and price. Most applications hosted on AWS use S3 in one form or another. It's not a database in the traditional sense but an object store or a file store. As a result, we can save a large amount of data at a low cost.

We can build an API with S3 integration to enhance this functionality and make it available outside AWS boundaries.

Example

To understand this integration, let’s create a simple API to access files in an S3 bucket. We can build a key-value store API out of S3 and API Gateway. It can be ...