Amazon S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Components

• Buckets

A bucket is simply a container for objects stored in Amazon S3.

• Objects

Every object is contained within a bucket.

• Keys

A key is the unique identifier for an object within a bucket.

Example: object named photos/allen.jpg is stored in the huihoo bucket, then it is addressable using the URL

Operations

• Create a Bucket
• Write an Object
• Read an Object
• Deleting an Object
• Listing Keys

API

• REST

The REST API is an HTTP interface to Amazon S3.

• SOAP

http://doc.s3.amazonaws.com/2006-03-01/AmazonS3.wsdl

Docs

• Getting Started Guide: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/gsg/
• Developer Guide: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/

Links

• http://aws.amazon.com/s3