Summary

Amazon S3 is one of AWS's flagship storage products and comes with unlimited amounts of storage capacity that is highly scalable and durable.

In this chapter, you learned about the core feature of Amazon S3, including versioning, lifecycle management, and replication services, and how Amazon S3 meets a wide range of use cases. You also learned how you can build and deploy static website hosting on an Amazon S3 bucket and its various applications in the real world.

We also discussed how Amazon S3 comes with a wide range of security tools such as the ability to create granular access permissions via bucket policies and ACLs, as well as encryption of data in transit and at rest. You have also learned how you can connect your on-premises workloads to the Amazon S3 platform using Amazon Storage Gateway via the internet, a VPN, or AWS Direct Connect services.

If you are looking to migrate large amounts of data to the cloud, you can use the Amazon Snowball service...