What is Amazon S3 Used for?

What is Amazon S3?

Amazon S3 is a Simple Storage Service in AWS that stores files of different types like Photos, Audio, and Videos as Objects providing more scalability and security to. It allows the users to store and retrieve any amount of data at any point in time from anywhere on the web. It facilitates features such as extremely high availability, security, and simple connection to other AWS Services....

What is Amazon S3 Used for?

Amazon S3 is used for various purposes in the Cloud because of its robust features with scaling and Securing of data. It helps people with all kinds of use cases from fields such as Mobile/Web applications, Big data, Machine Learning and many more. The following are a few Wide Usage of Amazon S3 service....

What is an Amazon S3 bucket?

Amazon S3 bucket is a fundamental Storage Container feature in AWS S3 Service. It provides a secure and scalable repository for storing of Objects such as Text data, Images, Audio and Video files over AWS Cloud. Each S3 bucket name should be named globally unique and should be configured with ACL (Access Control List)....

How Does Amazon S3 works?

Amazon S3 works on organizing the data into unique S3 Buckets, customizing the buckets with Acccess controls. It allows the users to store objects inside the S3 buckets with facilitating features like versioning and lifecycle management of data storage with scaling. The following are a few main features of Amazon s3:...

How To Use an Amazon S3 Bucket?

You can use the Amazon S3 buckets by following the simple steps which are mentioned below. To know more how to configure about Amazon S3 refer to the Amazon S3 – Creating a S3 Bucket....

What are the types of S3 Storage Classes?

AWS S3 provides multiple storage types that offer different performance and features and different cost structures....

How to Upload and Manage Files on Amazon S3?

Firstly you have to Amazon s3 bucket for uploading and managing the files on Amazon S3.  Try to create the S3 Bucket as discussed above. Once the S3 Bucket is created, you can upload the files through various ways such as AWS SDKs, AWS CLI, and Amazon S3 Management Console. Try managing the files by organizing them into folders within the S3 Bucket and applying access controls to secure the access. Features like Versioning and Lifecycle policies provide the management of data efficiently with optimization of storage classes.To know more detailing refer this article – How to Store and Download Obejcts in Amazon S3?...

How to Access Amazon S3 Bucket?

You can work and access the Amazon S3 bucket by using any one of the following methods...

AWS S3 Bucket Permissions

You can manage the permission of S3 buckets by using several methods following are a few of them....

Features of Amazon S3

Durability: AWS claims Amazon S3 to have a 99.999999999% of durability (11 9’s). This means the possibility of losing your data stored on S3 is one in a billion. Availability: AWS ensures that the up-time of AWS S3 is 99.99% for standard access. Note that availability is related to being able to access data and durability is related to losing data altogether. Server-Side-Encryption (SSE): AWS S3 supports three types of SSE models: SSE-S3: AWS S3 manages encryption keys. SSE-C: The customer manages encryption keys.  SSE-KMS: The AWS Key Management Service (KMS) manages the encryption keys. File Size support: AWS S3 can hold files of size ranging from 0 bytes to 5 terabytes. A 5TB limit on file size should not be a blocker for most of the applications in the world. Infinite storage space: Theoretically AWS S3 is supposed to have infinite storage space. This makes S3 infinitely scalable for all kinds of use cases. Pay as you use: The users are charged according to the S3 storage they hold....

Advantages of Amazon S3

Scalability: Amazon S3 can be scalable horizontally which makes it handle a large amount of data. It can be scaled automatically without human intervention. High availability: AmazonS3 bucket is famous for its high availability nature you can access the data whenever you required it from any region. It offers a Service Level Agreement (SLA) guaranteeing 99.9% uptime. Data Lifecycle Management: You can manage the data which is stored in the S3 bucket by automating the transition and expiration of objects based on predefined rules. You can automatically move the data to the Standard-IA or Glacier, after a specified period. Integration with Other AWS Services: You can integrate the S3 bucket service with different services in the AWS like you can integrate with the AWS lambda function where the lambda will be triggered based upon the files or objects added to the S3 bucket....

Amazon S3 – FAQs

What is the use of an AWS S3 bucket?...