What Is Amazon S3?

Amazon S3 is a simple storage service provided by Amazon Web Services. It is highly durable and provides security and scalability to any kind of data. This data is stored as objects within resources called buckets.

There are several approaches to storing and retrieving data from the S3 bucket. One of them is using the aws-sdk provided by AWS. This can be installed on any node application to communicate with the S3 bucket.

Reading A File From Amazon S3 Bucket Using Node Js

Create an AWS account and an IAM Role. Identity and Access Management (IAM) helps you secure the services you want to use by providing authentication and authorization as per your team’s requirements. Use the IAM role for accessing the S3 bucket data instead of directly using your main or root account.

Step 1: Create An Amazon S3 Bucket

• Sign in to your Amazon console and navigate to Amazon S3. Click on Create bucket to proceed.

Step 2: Configure The Amazon S3 Bucket

• Select an AWS Region and enter a unique bucket name to create a new bucket.

• Upon successful creation, you can see the list of buckets in the AWS Management Console.

Now, your bucket is ready to be integrated into the node application.

The AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is a cloud service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to store your data securely. There are different approaches to storing and retrieving data from AWS S3; one of them is by using aws-sdk provided by Amazon Web Services. In this article, we will provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to use aws-sdk to upload and retrieve files from Amazon S3 securely.