The Amazon S3 API
Amazon S3 is a data storage service. It underpins many of today's high-profile web services. Despite offering enterprise-grade resilience, performance and features, it's pretty easy to start with. It is affordable, and it provides a simple API for automated access. It's one of many cloud services in the growing Amazon Web Services (AWS) portfolio.
APIs change every now and then, and they are usually given a version number so that we can track them. We'll be working with the current version of the S3 REST API, "2006-03-01".
You'll notice that in the S3 documentation and elsewhere, the S3 web API is referred to as a REST API. REST stands for Representational State Transfer, and it is a fairly academic conception of how HTTP should ...
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