Chapter 4: Amazon S3 Blob Storage
Amazon S3 is one of the core tenants of Amazon Web Services. However, in the context of being a DevOps professional, there are certain nuances about the service that you must not only familiarize yourself with but also become comfortable with implementing.
Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) is the entry point for many users and companies looking to get into the cloud. Some of the main features it provides are being highly available, exceedingly durable, extremely performant, and easily managed, along with the ability to be thoroughly secure. One of the major features of S3 is its eleven 9's of durability (99.999999999%), which means that it doesn't lose objects or data. Once you upload an object, before it returns the 200 success status, that object must be copied to multiple systems in multiple Availability Zones to prevent data loss in an array of scenarios.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics...
