Overview

• Amazon S3 is one of the main building blocks of AWS

• It’s advertised as ”infinitely scaling” storage

• Many websites use Amazon S3 as a backbone

• Many AWS services use Amazon S3 as an integration as well • We’ll have a step-by-step approach to S3

Use cases

• Backup and storage

• Disaster Recovery

• Archive

• Hybrid Cloud storage

• Application hosting

• Media hosting

• Data lakes & big data analytics

• Software delivery

• Static website

Buckets

• Amazon S3 allows people to store objects (files) in “buckets” (directories)

• Buckets must have a globally unique name (across all regions all accounts)

• Buckets are defined at the region level

• S3 looks like a global service but buckets are created in a region

• Naming convention

• No uppercase, No underscore

• 3-63 characters long

• Not an IP

• Must start with a lowercase letter or number

• Must NOT start with the prefix xn--

• Must NOT end with the suffix -s3alias

Objects

• Objects (files) have a Key

• The key is the FULL path:

• s3://my-bucket/my_file.txt

• s3://my-bucket/my_folder1/another_folder/my_file.txt

• The key is composed of prefix + object name

• s3://my-bucket/my_folder1/another_folder/my_file.txt

• There’s no concept of “directories” within buckets (although the UI will trick you to think otherwise)

• Just keys with very long names that contain slashes (“/”)

• Object values are the content of the body:

• Max. Object Size is 5TB (5000GB)

• If uploading more than 5GB, must use “multi-part upload”

• Metadata (list of text key/value pairs – system or user metadata)

• Tags (Unicode key/value pair – up to 10) – useful for security/lifecycle

• Version ID (if versioning is enabled)