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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading provider of cloud computing services and hosting solutions. Among the vast number of services offered by AWS, the Simple Storage Service (S3) is one of the mostly widely used. This storage service offers high reliability, durability, scalability, and availability when compared to any other storage service.

In this course, you’ll learn about AWS S3 and its features in detail. Not only will you learn how AWS S3 works, you’ll also get hands-on experience with AWS’ security features and how to monitor and manage an AWS-hosted storage solution. By the end of this course, you will be able to use the console and command-line interface (CLI) to perform complex operations and host a static website using S3.

A Programmer’s Guide to AWS S3

While working with AWS S3, it’s important to understand how S3 supports **virtual hosted-style URLs**.
This URL works as an endpoint that can be used to locate objects within a bucket.

# Virtual hosted-style URLs

In a **virtual hosted-style URL** the bucket name is present within the URL as a subdomain of the URL. This allows every bucket to be present as a unique DNS subdomain in the URL.
 







In the example above, we see that the bucket name `my-pets` is a subdomain in the URL with the S3 endpoint `s3.amazonaws.com`. It also references the `dingo.jpg` object within the bucket.

You might have noticed this particular URL style pattern while using different products of Google, such as calendar.google.com, drive.google.com, and so on. Here, the subdomain is always specific to the product.

In the past, AWS S3 used **path-style URLs**, where the bucket name was present as a path after `s3.amazonaws.com`. We can see this in the example below.




Get a detailed understanding of an S3 URL that can be also used to acces objects.

Introduction

Get Started with S3

Work with S3

Create an S3 Bucket

Static Web Hosting Using S3

Host a Static Website on S3

Manage and Monitor S3

Manage and Monitor S3

Appendix

Conclusion

S3 URL Breakdown

Virtual hosted-style URLs