Creating an AWS S3 bucket

For this chapter, we will require a storage service to save all uploaded images. AWS provides different storage types, for various use cases. In our scenario of a social network, we will have dozens of people accessing many images at once. AWS Simple Storage Service (AWS S3) is the best option for our scenario.

You can visit the S3 screen by clicking on the Services drop-down menu at the top of the page, and then looking under the Storage category in the drop-down menu. There, you will find the link to S3. Having clicked on it, the screen will look as follows:

In S3, you create a bucket inside of a specific AWS region, ...

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