Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services

© Brian Beach, Steven Armentrout, Rodney Bozo, Emmanuel Tsouris 2019

B. Beach et al.Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Serviceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4850-8_11

11. Simple Storage Service

Brian Beach¹ , Steven Armentrout², Rodney Bozo³ and Emmanuel Tsouris⁴

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Raleigh, NC, USA

(2)

Mountlake Terrace, WA, USA

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Sterling, VA, USA

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North Bend, WA, USA

 

Simple Storage Service (S3) is used to store in the cloud. S3 can scale to enormous size. You can store an unlimited number of objects and access them from anywhere. You access S3 over HTTP or HTTPS using a REST API.

S3 provides 99.999999999% (that’s 11 nines) durability by storing data multiple times across multiple availability zones within a region. A single object can be anywhere from 1 byte to ...