AWS For Admins For Dummies

Chapter 7

Working with Cloud Storage Using S3

IN THIS CHAPTER

Defining the Simple Storage Service (S3) feature set

Interacting with various object types

Using S3 for backups

Creating an S3-based website

Using S3 with Lambda

Performing long-term storage tasks

An essential part of any cloud computing solution is storage. In fact, long before anyone considered creating Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), or Platform as a Service (PaaS), vendors offered various types of online storage solutions. In some respects, storage is the simplest kind of service a vendor can offer. At least, storage starts out simply. As you find in this chapter, however, the S3 feature set is anything but simplistic because the moment you start adding complex applications, robust user needs, and interacting enterprise policies, storage becomes quite complex indeed. The heart of every ...