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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)

Prerequisites


The following sections will explain the prerequisites for managing Amazon S3 using the AWS SDK for Java.

The AWS SDK for Java

The AWS SDK for Java is required in order to use the Amazon API. This SDK contains a .jar file, which we need to add to our project's classpath. You can download the SDK from the following URL:

http://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java

The access key and secret key

The access key and the secret key are required to connect to Amazon S3. These credentials can be obtained by creating a user in Amazon IAM.

Log in to the AWS console, and click on Identity & Access Management, as shown in the following screenshot:

This directs you to the Identity & Access Management screen, which enables you to create AWS users and groups, and assign roles to them, as seen in the following screenshot:

Click on Users in the menu on the left-hand side of the screen. This opens up a screen for creating new users and for displaying the listing of the existing users:

Click on the Create...