Amazon Simple Storage Service
Learn to use Amazon S3, including creating a bucket and uploading files to it through the console and through code.
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Amazon S3 is a scalable and cost-effective way to store a variety of objects and has been widely used among AWS customers of all sizes and industries.
One way to think about S3 is as a cloud-based file system. Developers can create uniquely named buckets, and within those buckets can be folders and file objects.
There are no practical limits on how many S3 objects we can store. We can even store HTML, CSS, and image files in a bucket and configure it to serve up a public website made up of static pages. Since its launch in 2006, S3 now stores over 100 trillion objects and can handle tens of millions of requests per second.
Creating a bucket on Amazon S3
Let’s learn how to create an S3 bucket for storing data.
In the Amazon S3 part of the AWS Console, we click the “Create bucket” button.
On the “Create bucket” form, we’ll need to specify a bucket name. This bucket name must be unique across all buckets on Amazon, including buckets that anyone else created for their accounts. This uniqueness constraint can make it ...