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AWS S3 bucket: understanding of this service and how to use it

Karl Sorrel756 10-May-2019

Amazon S3 is short for Amazon Simple Storage Server and it is a simple file storage, where objects such as music, videos, photos, documents, etc., are stored into so-called buckets. You can apply different kinds of security policies to the AWS S3 bucket: either make it private, public or share the rights between users. The namespace of buckets is one for all users, that is why according to this fact, S3 bucket name should be unique. So, as it was mentioned above, it is just a simple file storage on the Internet. Nevertheless, we wouldn’t call Amazon S3 simple, as you are provided with just as much storage space as you need. Want 10MB, 1GB or even 5000GB? It does not matter, as there are absolutely no restrictions. However, you should keep in mind the maximum size per file and that is 5 GB.

AWS S3 bucket: understanding of this service and how to use it

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Updated 07-Sep-2019

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