Getting started with S3

Getting started with S3 is by far the simplest and most straightforward thing you will ever do! Simply log in to your AWS account using your IAM credentials and select the S3 option:

This will bring up the S3 Management Dashboard as shown in the following screenshot. You can use this dashboard to create, list, upload, and delete objects from buckets as well as provide fine-grained permissions and access control rights as well. Let's start off by creating a simple bucket for our demo website all-about-dogs.com.

Creating buckets

To get started with your first bucket, simply select the Create Bucket option from the S3 dashboard. Provide a suitable name for your new bucket. Remember, your bucket name will have to be unique and will have to start with a lowercase character. Next, select a particular Region where you would like your bucket to be created. Although buckets are global entities in AWS, you still need to provide it with a Region option. This comes in handy, especially...