Chapter 7
Working with Cloud Storage Using S3
IN THIS CHAPTER
Defining the Simple Storage Service (S3) feature set
Interacting with various object types
Using S3 for backups
Creating an S3-based website
Using S3 with Lambda
Performing long-term storage tasks
An essential part of any cloud computing solution is storage. In fact, long before anyone considered creating Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), or Platform as a Service (PaaS), vendors offered various types of online storage solutions. In some respects, storage is the simplest kind of service a vendor can offer. At least, storage starts out simply. As you find in this chapter, however, the S3 feature set is anything but simplistic because the moment you start adding complex applications, robust user needs, and interacting enterprise policies, storage becomes quite complex indeed. The heart of every ...
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