Notes on Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (AWS S3)
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1 min readAug 23, 2017
- S3 is object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere
- There is no limit on your account. So you can store an unlimited number of data on s3.
- Standard S3 is 99.99999999999 % Durable and 99.99% Available.
- S3 supports virtually any type of data.
- S3 bucket name must be unique over all regions. Unlike services like EC2 S3 is a global service.
- There are different kinds of S3 storage class: Standard S3, Reduced Redundancy, Infrequent Access and Glacier.
- The Limit per object is 5TB but you can upload only 5GB by PUT request. If you have a file larger than that you will have to use MULTIPART UPLOAD API .
- Each Folder is in S3 is called a BUCKET.
- You can host a Static website on an S3 Bucket.
- The name of the bucket must be the same as the domain name for you to host a website on that bucket.
- S3 Metadata is automatically encrypted.
- You can enable Versioning to save previous versions of files.
- You can choose to encrypt data using Server Side Encryption
- Cross Region Replication(CRR) is an Amazon S3 feature that automatically replicates data across AWS regions.
