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Host Your Web Site In The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy
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Host Your Web Site In The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy

by Jeffrey Barr
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
8h 58m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 4 Storing Data with Amazon S3

In this chapter, we’ll dive headfirst into Amazon S3, the Simple Storage Service. After a quick overview of the most important S3 concepts, we’ll spend the greater part of this chapter reviewing the code needed to manipulate buckets and objects in S3 and its content-distribution sibling, CloudFront.

S3 Overview

S3 is an Internet-scale data storage service. All data is stored redundantly to guard against problems brought on by temporary connectivity issues or permanent hardware failures. S3 can scale to handle vast amounts of data and deal with a very large number of concurrent accesses. At the time of writing, S3 held over 124 billion objects and was handling over one trillion requests per year. ...

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