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Serverless Architectures with AWS

You're reading from   Serverless Architectures with AWS Discover how you can migrate from traditional deployments to serverless architectures with AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789805024
Length 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohit Gupta Mohit Gupta
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Amazon Simple Storage Service or S3 is nothing but a cloud storage platform that lets you store and retrieve any amount of data anywhere. Amazon S3 provides unmatched durability, scalability, and availability so that you can store your data in one of the most secure ways. This storage service is accessible via simple web interfaces, which can either be REST or SOAP. Amazon S3 is one of the most supported platforms, so either you can use S3 as a standalone service or you can integrate it with other AWS services.

Amazon S3 is an object storage unit that stores data as objects within resources called "buckets". Buckets are containers for your objects and serve multiple purposes. Buckets let you organize Amazon namespaces at the highest level and also play a key role in access control. You can store any amount of objects within a bucket, while your object size can vary from 1 byte to 5 terabytes. You can perform read, write, and delete operations on your objects in the buckets.

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