Simple Storage Service (S3)

• Bucket:
  • This is the root for storing objects
  • Bucket name should be dns compliant Refer Here
  • No Two bucket across all AWS accounts can have same name
• Lets create a bucket and upload a video
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• the url copied is https://qtvideosnov23.s3.ap-south-2.amazonaws.com/one.mp4 => https://<bucket-name>.s3.<region>.amazonaws.com/<objectname>
• S3 pricing
  • Data size: 1000 GB
  • Write Operation Count = 10000
  • Read Operation Count = 10000
  • Size Read => 10000
  • S3 Standard
    
  • Infrequent access
    
  • Glacier
    
• Backup and Archival
  • Backup is meant to recover data from failures quickly (max recovery time should be in hours) => Business Continuity
  • Archival is meant to recover data from disasters and recovery will take time (usually in days) => Disaster Recovery
• In AWS
  • Glacier is meant for archival
  • S3 can be used for backups.
• Each Object can be set to Storage Class. Storage class defines the billing w.r.t storage and access costs
• The only restriction for an object i.e. file is it cannot be greater than 5 TiB