AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

Simple Storage Service

Similar to EC2, Simple Storage Service (S3) has had its own share of new features and support added to it. Some of these are explained here:

• S3 Object Tagging: S3 Object Tagging is like any other tagging mechanism provided by AWS, used commonly for managing and controlling access to your S3 resources. The tags are simple key-value pairs that you can use for creating and associating IAM policies for your S3 resources, to set up S3 life cycle policies, and to manage transitions of objects between various storage classes.
• S3 Inventory: S3 Inventory was a special feature provided with the sole purpose of cataloging the various objects and providing that as a useable CSV file for further analysis and inventorying. Using ...