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Amazon S3 Essentials

By : Sunil Gulabani
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Amazon S3 Essentials

By: Sunil Gulabani

Overview of this book

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), provides developers and IT teams with secure, durable, and highly-scalable object storage. Amazon S3 is easy to use, with a simple web services interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. S3 is automatically web scalable and responds to the requirements of your application and traffic, and therefore offers a key element to help companies deal dynamically with any spike in traffic for their application (such as a free e-book offer). This book starts with the basics of the Amazon S3 and its features, and you will quickly get an understanding how to use the Amazon Management Console for Amazon S3 which is the simplest way to manage Amazon S3. Next, we will cover basic operations on bucket, folder, objects. Once the basic operations are understood, you will know how to use Amazon S3 using Java SDK. Following that, you will learn about Copy Objects and Multipart copy objects for large objects size. You will also learn to manage the life cycle of bucket and how to share resources to the different domain by configuring CORS. The book will then guide you through the development and deployment of a static website on Amazon S3 using different services of Amazon. By the end of the book, you will be able to create a scalable application using Amazon S3.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Object operations


In the bucket/folder section, there is an option to create a folder or upload an object:

Clicking on Upload displays a pop-up window, which allows the user to select the Add Files or Upload Folder options using Enable Enhanced Uploader (BETA):

We added the files index.html, index-1.html, and index-2.html using Add Files. Look at the listing of the files under the sg-folder folder in the following screenshot:

While adding files, you can also set the details, permissions, and metadata for the group of files that is being added. However, you can even set the details, permissions, and metadata after the files have been uploaded.

There are two options under the Set Details section:

  • Use Reduced Redundancy Storage

  • Use Server Side Encryption

Use Reduced Redundancy Storage

Amazon S3 provides the subscribers an optional feature for storing data with the RRS storage class. It is basically for storing non-critical and reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. The cost of storing...