What Is AWS?

• AWS stands for Amazon Web services, Which was launched by Amazon.
• AWS is a cloud platform service.
• The AWS service is provided by Amazon which provides different IT resources on demand. It provides different services such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

What Is AWS S3?

• S3 is Object-based storage that can store images, word files, and pdf files in a very safe manner.
• The files which are stored in S3 can be from 0 Byte to 5 TB.
• S3 has unlimited storage.
• In S3, Files are stored in a Bucket. A bucket is like a normal folder that stores the files.
• In S3, file names should be unique. Each Bucket contains a DNS address.

S3 URL Example

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/bucketName

Here,

s3-EU-west-1 is a region name.

BucketName- It can be anything, a user-defined name.

How to Store Data In AWS S3?

As we had learned earlier, S3 is object-based Storage. So In S3, A Objects consist of the following:

• Key: It is simply the name of the object. The name can be anything but it should be unique.
• Value: It is simply the data inside a file which is made up of a sequence of bytes.
• Version ID: When we add an object to the S3 then Version ID is a string generated by S3 that uniquely identifies the object.
• Metadata: It is the data about data that is getting stored by the user in S3. Metadata can assign to the objects which are stored in Amazon S3.
• Subresources: The subresource mechanism uses to store information related to an object.
• Access control information: In the S3 files, we can apply for individual permissions.

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Steps to Create S3 Bucket

• 1st Step

Sign in to the AWS Management console. After login, you can see below screen

• 2nd Step

Go to the S3 services. After clicking on S3, You will see the below page.

• 3rd Step

Now click on the “Create bucket”

• 4th Step

Now Enter the bucket name which should look like DNS address.

Use Below mentioned rules to enter the bucket name-

• A bucket name should be unique.
• A bucket name should start with a lowercase letter,
• A bucket name must not contain any invalid characters.
• A bucket name should be 3 to 63 characters long.

• 5th Step

Now click on create button.

• 6th Step

Now Click on created Bucket name and you will be able to upload files as many as you want.

• 7th Step

To Upload files on S3 Bucket, Click on the “Upload” button.

By following the above steps, you can Create S3 Buckets and upload files on them.

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