June 2025
Beginner to intermediate
1180 pages
37h 48m
English
S3 stands for Simple Storage Service and is one piece of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) jigsaw puzzle. S3 is a comparatively inexpensive cloud service from Amazon for storing files. It’s particularly popular as external backup storage, especially when you need to perform a backup that’s geographically separate from the server in addition to a local backup. This gives you the peace of mind that you'll be able to access your data even if your hosting company goes out of business or its data center is destroyed by a natural disaster.
The pricing model for Amazon S3 is confusing in that you pay not only for the amount of data stored as such, but also for transfers. S3 even distinguishes between GET and PUT requests ...
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