Basic concepts of Amazon S3
Let's take a look at the basic S3 concepts:
Buckets
A bucket is a container in Amazon S3 where the files are uploaded. For using Amazon S3 to store a file, you need to create at least one bucket. Files (objects) are stored in buckets.
The following are a few features of buckets:
- The bucket name should be unique because it is shared by all users.
- Buckets can contain logical nested folders and subfolders. But it cannot contain nested buckets.
- You can create a maximum of 100 buckets in a single account.
- The bucket name can contain letters, numbers, periods, dash, and the underscore.
- The bucket name should start with a letter or number, and it should be between 3 to 25 characters long.
Buckets can be managed via the following:
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