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Amazon S3 overview

Amazon S3 overview

- [Instructor] Amazon S3 is an object storage service in AWS. S3 is actually an acronym for Simple Storage Service. It is a highly durable, highly available, and highly scalable service, with many available features that you can use. This storage type is perfect for storing static data that does not change frequently. It makes your data publicly available via the internet, which can be accessed anywhere and not just within your virtual private cloud. In Amazon S3, you'll mainly work with objects and buckets. An object is just a regular file with corresponding metadata, while the bucket is simply a resource that acts as a container for your objects. The metadata of the object is basically a set of name value pairs that describes what the file is. Once the object has been uploaded to the bucket, its metadata will be permanent and cannot be modified. This object can be downloaded by multiple EC2 instances or by millions of…

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