Amazon Simple Storage Service

Definition:

• Object Storage
• 0bytes-5TB each object
• Object:
  • key
  • value
  • version ID
  • metadata
• Objects are not in folders, the UI use ”/” to separate for viewing purposes
• Storage class are object level
• CLIs:
  • aws s3: high level, simple
  • aws s3api: lower level
  • aws s3control: manage s3 access point, s3 outputs buckets, s3 batch ops, storage lens
• S3 request styles:
  • virtual hosted-style: <bucket_name>.s3.<region>.amazonaws.com/object
  • path-style: s3.<region>.amazonaws.com/<bucket>/object
    • discontinued
• S3 dualstack endpoints:
  • standard endpoint: https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
    • only for ipv4
  • dualstack endpoint: https://s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
    • support both ipv4 and ipv6

1. S3 General Purpose Bucket

2. S3 Directory Bucket

• Organized data in folder hierarchy
• Only to be used with S3 Express One Zone storage class
• Recommended to be used when needing single-digit millisecond performance with PUT and GET
• default limit of 10 directory bucket per account

3. S3 Outposts

• Storage class:
  • S3 Outposts