Working with S3

The Amazon S3 service is one of the first services that was offered by AWS. S3 provides secure, durable, and scalable object storage at a very low cost. Object storage just means that the things you store in S3 are accessible at the file level, instead of at the block or byte level. S3 is a very flexible service, with many usage patterns. You can read more about Amazon S3 at https://aws.amazon.com/s3.

Let's start working with Amazon S3 by creating a bucket. You can think of a bucket as a folder that can hold an unlimited number of files (objects).

Navigate to the Amazon S3 home page from the Amazon Management Console by clicking on the Services tab in the top-left corner, and then click or search for S3 under Storage. If this ...

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