Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a powerful expansive cloud infrastructure platform for building modern web applications.

AWS provides services for data, presentation, authentication, security, video encoding, and much more. Offering over 175 fully-featured services from data centers globally, AWS powers a large percentage of the internet.

To quote Amazon S3 landing page:

> Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. [...] Amazon S3 is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9's) of durability, and stores data for millions of applications for companies all around the world.

_Okay, but what does it mean?_

In this quick lesson we're going to learn:
- what exactly is Amazon Simple Storage
- what's included in S3 free tier
- what's an S3 bucket
- why making every S3 bucket public is a bad idea
- and why you're not able to name an S3 bucket 'half-life-3-source-code'

WTF is Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)?

In order to learn how Amazon S3 works - we have to start somewhere.

That's why in this quick lesson we're going to learn:

- how to create a brand new S3 bucket
- why an S3 bucket blocks public access by default
- what are the rules when it comes to naming an S3 bucket
- how to upload a file with default setting using the S3 Console

Learn Amazon S3 from scratch

Tomasz Łakomy

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