Amazon S3 for Dummies— Infinite Storage on the Cloud
A Beginner’s Guide to Amazon S3. Learn about the core concepts, components, and major features of the S3 service.
Amazon S3 is one of the core services and among the pillars of the AWS cloud infrastructure. The S3 stands for “Simple Storage Service” and is among the three foundational services that Amazon started with back in 2006. Almost all services in the AWS cloud infrastructure use this service in one way or the other. In simple terms, Amazon S3 is an object store just like a regular file system that you have on your computer but is “infinitely scaling” or as AWS advertises it. There’s no limit to the amount of data you can store on s3.
The key features of s3 service are it's infinite, highly scalable, high availability, high durability, manageable, and secure. Even with the option of infinite storage, in terms of cost, it is one of the most costly friendly services and you only pay for what you use. It can be used to store all kinds of image, text, and multi-media data.
The article will cover the following sections:
- Amazon S3 overview.
- S3 Buckets and Objects overview.
- S3 Advance features.
- S3 popular use cases.
