Features of S3
Let’s understand the various features of AWS S3.
Access points
What are access points?
Access points are network endpoints that can be attached to our bucket to perform object-level operations. They work together with the S3 bucket policies and provide a higher granularity in terms of permission.
The data which we upload as objects in the buckets sometimes needs to be shared with teams, individuals, or other applications for various uses.
Access points work to simplify the data sharing process without any security breach. Using access points, we can create unique policies for various users to access shared datasets.
- Buckets have bucket policies that provide access to other users and applications.
- However, as the number of users/applications increases over time, the admin overhead of keeping track of the permissions assigned will grow.
- To face this issue, S3 has an access point feature.
- Using access points only object-level operations can be performed.
- Modifying, deleting, or cross-region replication of buckets is not supported by