Introduction to Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is one of Amazon's flagship products, and offers a robust, scalable, durable, and cost-effective object storage solution in the cloud. Customers can use Amazon S3 to store any amount of data for a wide range of use cases, including digital media content for websites, data lakes, mobile applications, IoT device data, and big data analytics.
Amazon S3 can offer up to 99.999999999% durability and fulfills the storage requirements for a majority of clients and their individual business needs.
What does eleven 9s of durability mean? According to AWS, if you store 10,000,000 objects on Amazon S3, then on average you can expect to incur a loss of a single object once every 10,000 years. You can review all frequently asked questions (FAQs) for Amazon S3 here: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/.
Buckets and objects
Before you can upload any data to Amazon S3, you need to create a container called a bucket. Buckets need to have a unique global...