AWS -Introduction to Simple Storage Service(S3) — Console & Command Line Interface (CLI)

AWS -Introduction to Simple Storage Service(S3) — Console & Command Line Interface (CLI)

Amazon S3 has a simple web services interface that you can use to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.

Pre-requisites :

1. Basic Knowledge of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
2. Need AWS account with internet connection.
3. Have AWS account or can sign in using Free Tier of AWS.

Creating and uploading S3 Buckets/Files ( Console ) :

1. Click on services and Go to S3 > Create Bucket > Fill Bucket Name > Select Region > Enabled ACL > untick block all public access > enable the acknowledgement > Click on Create Bucket.

Screenshot from Amazon Console

2. Open Bucket which you created > Click Upload > Add Files/Folders > Enable Bucket Versioning > Go to Permissions and Tick Grant public-read access to enable public access of image > Go to properties and Select relevant storage Classes >Click on upload.

Screenshot from Amazon Console

3. Click on File and open Object URL and paste it in any browser and you� ��ll be able to see file.

Creating and uploading S3 Buckets/Files ( CLI ) :

1. Launch VPC and EC2 in with atleast one public Cloud and open Extension SSH
2. Now, use Below commands for installing CLI in SSH Shell

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

3. Go to IAM Roles > Create Users > User Credentials > Security Credentials > Create access key (Inside you'll get access key ID & Secret access key ID) > Copy it

4. Go to CLI and type ifconfigure and fill details Access Key ID, Secret Access Key ID , Zone ( us east-1) and Format As JSON.

5. To Create Bucket in S3 follow below commands :

5. Go to S3 and you can see that the Bucket is successfully created.

Points To Remember :

1. S3 is a Global Service but Bucket is a Regional resource.

S3 url (folder) : https://bucketname.s3.region.amazonaws.com/foldername/objectname

S3 url (file) : https://bucketname.s3.region.amazonaws.com/objectname

2. Latency is the delay between a user's action and a web application's response to that action For example : ping google.com

3. Data lifecycle :

Standard : frequent access data as in accessing data on daily basis.

Standard-IA : infrequent access data as in accessing once in a 6 months.

Intelligent Tiering : According to you accessing frequenc y it'll Automatically sets data lifecycle.

Glacier/Deep Glacier : Coma/Almost dead as in accessing once in many years.

4. Bucket Versioning : It creates multiple variants of objects

For More details on Terminologies or Hosting Website using S3 you can visit here.

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