Essential Insights: Mastering AWS S3 for Optimal Cloud Storage

S3 stands for simple storage service. Amazon S3 is a scalable cloud storage service provided by AWS that allows people store object in a bucket.

S3 stores files in a bucket and bucket can be seen as top level directory. The files in the s3 buckets are called object. They must have a global unique name across all region however, S3 must be define in a specific region even if it is global.

Features and benefits of using Amazon S3

Scalability - it can scale to accommodate any amount of data up to 5tb. It has no storage limit.

Reliability and Availability - It is highly reliable and it replicate data across buckets. 

Security - S3 provides several security feature such server-side encryption, support for ssl/tls, IAM policy.

Cost efficiency

Access control and permission - S3 provides time green access control mechanism using the acl and IAM policies.