What is AWS S3 Bucket?

 

S3 is the short form for Simple Storage Service. It is an storage service where you can store any types of files as object. Most important feature of this service is that it is very cheap compared to all other services of aws. 

There are lots of s3 classes and each of them has different uses. Most common uses of S3 is given below:

1) S3 can be used to host static sites.

2) S3 can be used to store huge size data for a cheap rate and show them through REST API calls to the end user.

Amazon calls their object storing place as bucket. So to store any file you have to first create a bucket. All the process are explained below from creating a bucket to storing objects, deleting objects and deleting buckets.

Step 1: Sign in to your aws account. In the management console search bar type s3 and click on s3. 

Step 2: Click on Create bucket.

Step 3: Here give your bucket name. But you should be careful when giving bucket name because S3 bucket name should be globally unique. Also have some other rules that you can see after clicking on the link that says "See rules for bucket Naming". 

Then Choose your region.

On the object Ownership tab Choose ACLs disabled if you don't want to share this bucket with other AWS accounts. But if you want then you should choose ACLs enabled.

Now on the Block Public Access settings for this bucket tab , if you want store static site then you should untick this otherwise should be kept as it is.

Bucket versioning means that you can keep multiple version of a same object and can get access to all of them when necessary. But you can do that with just renaming the object so it should be disabled.

If you create a lot of buckets then to find specific bucket you can add Tags in  the Tags Tab.

In the Default Encryption Tab you can choose to create and store your own key or you can choose Amazon S3 managed keys. For most cases SSE-S3 is okay. Because if you want to create your own key then you have to use another aws service called AWS KMS.

There are some advance settings which should be kept at default.

Then Click on create bucket. And that will finish creating your bucket in 1-2 minutes.