Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

wikipedia:Amazon S3 (2006) or Amazon Simple Storage Service a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) since 2006 that provides Object Storage through a web service interface or CLI.

• AWS free tier: 5 GB
• Encryption
• Replication
• Lifecycle
• Versioning

Commands

See also: AWS Command Line Tool (CLI)

• aws s3 cp
• aws s3 sync
• aws s3 rm
• aws s3 help
• aws s3 mb (creates a bucket)
• aws s3 rb
• aws s3 presign

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/

Amazon S3 logs

Amazon S3 allows users to enable or disable logging. If enabled, the logs are stored in Amazon S3 buckets which can then be analyzed. These logs contain useful information such as:

• Date and time of access to requested content
• Protocol used (HTTP, FTP, etc.)
• HTTP status codes
• Turnaround time
• HTTP request message

Encryption

Encryption (2017) is supported in AWS S3 (default Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256bit)

• In transit (SSL/TLS)
• At rest:
  • Server Side Encryption (SSE):
  • S3 Managed Keys (SSE-S3; 256bit);
  • AWS Key Management Service, Managed Keys (SSE-KMS)
  • Server Side Encryption with Customer Provided Keys (SSE-C)
• Client Side Encryption (user encypts data on their local machine and then upload to AWS S3)

Replication

• S3 Replication Time Control (S3 RTC)

Related terms

• Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS
• CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3
• Transmit 5
• Cyberduck
• s3fs-fuse
• AWS Storage Gateway
• Amazon Glacier
• Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR)
• PrestoDB SQL engine
• AWS: 1.4 Choose appropriate resilient storage
• CloudFormation: AWS::S3, AWS::S3::Bucket
• Amazon S3 Storage Lens
• Amazon S3 inventory
• Amazon Macie for S3 analysis
• Restrict access to files in Amazon S3 buckets
• Terraform resources: aws_s3_bucket_policy
• AWS managed policy: AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess
• Amazon GuardDuty S3 protection
• AWS Athena

Limitations

• No bandwidth restriction
• No size restriction by bucket

Activities

• Read https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/amazon-s3?sort=votes
• Read https://www.sumologic.com/insight/10-things-might-not-know-using-s3/

See also

• AWS S3:aws s3control. aws s3 [ cp | ls | sync | presing | mb | rm | rb ]
• AWS S3, aws s3, aws s3api, aws s3control, s3:, Amazon S3 Storage Lens, AWS S3 replication, CRR, SSR, CAR, S3 Replication Time Control (S3 RTC), Website endpoint, Amazon Macie, Versioning, Lifecycle, Encryption, logging, Amazon S3 Inventory, Amazon S3 Batch Operations, Storage Classes, Amazon S3 clients, Terraform S3, AWS canned ACLs, Directory buckets, security, PutObject
• Object storage: AWS S3, ceph, Scality, SWIFT, Cloudian, MinIO, Swift (OpenStack), Object versioning

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/cp.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/mb.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/storage-inventory.html