Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

S3 buckets and objects

S3 organizes the data that we store in it using two concepts: buckets and objects. An object is the equivalent of a file, that is, a blob of data with a name, and a bucket is equivalent to a directory. Every bucket has its own URL of the form http://s3.<region>.amazonaws.com/<bucketname>.

In the URL, <bucketname> is the name of the bucket and <region> is the AWS region where the bucket is present, for example eu-west-2. The bucket name and region are set when we create the bucket.

Bucket names are shared globally among all S3 users, and so they must be unique. If you own a domain, then a subdomain of that will make an appropriate bucket name.

Objects are named when we first upload them. We access objects by adding the ...