Chapter 7. AWS Simple Storage Service
AWS Simple StorageService (S3) is an unlimited object store service. Almost every customer that I work with uses S3 for data storage because S3 is really cheap, easy to use, and integrated with various other AWS services. This is a core storage service considering the storage options on AWS. S3 offers various storage classes to optimize the cost. It is a highly available and durable object store that has 99.99% of availability and 99.999999999% of durability. Objects within a bucket in the region are synchronized across all the availability zones for extremely high availability and durability. You can think of a bucket as a local drive on your computer and directories as folders inside the bucket. As buckets are region specific, you should always create an S3 bucket in the region that makes sense to its purpose, such as sharing content to customers or sharing data with EC2 instances in the given region. Objects in S3 could be any blob of data, such as...