Preface

The Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an online object storage service. It can be used to store and get any data via the following:

  • The REST web service interface
  • The SOAP web service interface
  • BitTorrent

Amazon S3 is easy to configure; it's a reliable and scalable storage that stores files (objects) with high security at a nominal price. Developers or system teams don't have to worry about the data that is stored at or retrieved from Amazon S3. Amazon S3 manages the web-scale computing by itself.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Know-How about S3, gives a brief introduction to Amazon S3, covering the basic concepts, buckets, objects, and keys. We will also discuss the features of Amazon S3 that can be utilized at minimal cost and ...

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