Machine Learning for Business

B.2 Setting up folders in S3

In the previous section, you created a bucket to hold all of your files and code for this book. In this section, you set up a folder to hold your files and code for chapter 2. Once you get the hang of this, you can easily set up folders for the other chapters.

You can think of a bucket in S3 as a top-level folder. The folder that you’ll create in this appendix is a subfolder of that top-level folder.

In this book, you’ll see terminology such as “a folder” when describing the contents of a bucket, but this terminology is not entirely accurate. In reality, there is no such thing as a folder in an S3 bucket. It looks like there is in the user interface, but an S3 bucket doesn’t actually store things hierarchically. ...