AWS Quick Labs - Introduction to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

Introduction to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

Here we are going through Quick Labs from AWS, and this chapter is describing Simple Storage service (S3). Amazone S3 is the storage solution from AWS, which has an ability to store any amount of data in a highly secure and fast manner. 

S3 stores data in containers called 'bucket', we can create multiple buckets to store data as well as we can set permissions for the objects in the buckets.

In this lab, we are covering following points:

* How to create a bucket in S3
* Add objects to S3 bucket
* Viewing objects in Bucket
* Deleting objects from Bucket

Creating a bucket in Amazone S3

From the AWS management console S3 and click Create Bucket button to create a bucket. The following screen shot shows the AWS management console details.

1) Select S3 from management console

2) Click on create bucket  button, then enter a name for the bucket as shown below. A region is the location of the AWS Instances, each region has multiple availability zones. The regions are used for low latency connection, depending on the business needs we can select the region. Here we are going with the default option.     

3) Here you can see the created buckets in all buckets options, in the right side properties tag we can set permissions and has other administrating options.

Adding an object to Bucket

1) We can upload files and folders to the bucket, and for file uploading, click on the upload button select add files, browse the files and select then upload. 

2) For uploading a folder click on the upload button and you can drag and drop files from the computer and then click start upload.

3) Now we have uploaded a folder and a file.

4) For downloading files and folders from the bucket, we can right click on the particular file and in the dialog box click download.

Moving an object to a different bucket

1) You can create an additional bucket using the previously mentioned method.   

2) Go back to the old bucket and right click on the created bucket then select cut.

3) Go to the newly created bucket, right click then paste. 

4) You can see the folder has moved to the new bucket which is ramvijo2.

5) For deleting, the object right-clicks on the object and select delete from the menu.

6) You can see all activities of the bucket from the Transfers tag as shown below.

Confirmation of lab completion