Pro .NET on Amazon Web Services: Guidance and Best Practices for Building and Deployment

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W. Penberthy, S. RobertsPro .NET on Amazon Web Serviceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8907-5_7

7. S3 Object Storage

William Penberthy¹   and Steve Roberts¹

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Seattle, WA, USA

 

.NET applications running on-premises usually store application data – text and binary files, static website assets, etc. – on local or networked file storage. While cloud-based network storage is still a possibility with services such as Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and others, you’ll probably begin using cloud-based object storage with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) .

In this chapter, we’ll take a closer look at S3 from the perspective of an application. We’ll start by ...