Amazon S3 - Simple Storage Service

What is Amazon S3?

Amazon S3 is a repository for Internet data. Amazon S3 provides access to reliable, fast, and inexpensive data storage. It is designed to make web-scale computing easy by enabling you to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from within Amazon EC2 or anywhere on the web.

Amazon S3 stores data objects redundantly on multiple devices across multiple facilities and allows concurrent read or write access to these data objects by many separate clients or application threads. You can use the redundant data stored in Amazon S3 to recover quickly and reliably from instance or application failures.

How to Start With Amazon S3 - Simple Storage Service

Follow the simple six steps to successfully Use a Amazon S3 :-

• Sign-up for Amazon S3
• Create Bucket
• Add An Object to the Bucket
• View Object
• Move  Object
• Delete  Object and Bucket

Sign-up for Amazon S3

1. Go to http://aws.amazon.com/s3 and click Sign Up
2. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Create Bucket for Amazon S3

1. Sign into the AWS Management Console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3.
2. Click Create Bucket and dialog box will pop up.
3. In the Create a Bucket dialog box, enter a bucket name in the bucket Name box .After you create a bucket, you cannot change its name. The bucket name is also visible in the URL that points to the objects stored in the bucket. Ensure that the bucket name you choose is appropriate.
4. In the Region box, select a region.You can choose a region to optimize latency, minimize costs, or address regulatory requirements.
5. Click Create.
   When Amazon S3 successfully creates your bucket, the console displays your empty bucket in the Buckets panel.

Add An Object To The Bucket for Amazon S3

1. click the name of bucket that you want to upload an object to and then click Upload.
2. In the Upload - Select Files wizard, if you want to upload an entire folder, you must click Enable Enhanced Uploader to install the necessary Java applet. You only need to do this once per console session.
3. Click Add Files.
   • If you enabled the advanced uploader in step 2, you see a Java dialog box titled Select files and folders to upload, as shown.
   • If not, you see the File Upload dialog box associated with your operating system.
4. Now Select the file that you want to upload and then click Open.
5. Click Start Upload

View Object from Amazon S3

1. In the Objects and Folders list, right-click the object or objects that you want to open or download, then click Open or Download as appropriate.
2. If you are downloading the object, specify where you want to save it. The procedure for saving the object depends on the browser and operating system that you are using.

So far we have seen how to create an Amazon S3 bucket,Add an object in the bucket and how to view the same object from the bucket.In the next article we will see how to move object in bucket and how to delete an object and bucket from Amazon S3.Thanks!!

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