Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a web storage service accessed via the HTTP protocol using a web service interface. It is used to store/retrieve files centrally over the internet, which helps developers to create applications that are highly scalable, efficient, secured, and inexpensive. S3 offers unlimited storage, so developers need not worry about disk space issues.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Bucket
- Objects
- Static website hosting
Amazon S3 is also an online object storage service accessed over the internet that allows us to add, read, and delete files. The following are the interfaces that are supported, using which we can store and get files from S3:
- REST web service
- SOAP web service
- BitTorrent
Amazon S3 allows us to store any kinds of files (called as objects) in a secure manner. We can control the access of the files...
