Get started with S3

Read the chapter on S3's architecture and then get signed up and started with S3

Move quickly to being comfortable with S3

The first few recipes will get you reading and writing objects on S3, listing your objects and all of the basic operations you'll use every day.

Then go deep where you need to

Learn to control access to your S3 objects, log who's using your objects, serve compressed content, use S3 for backups and more.

Reviews

Did you know that you can enable access logging on S3?
Did you know that you can add arbitrary metadata to objects in S3?
Did you know that you can serve compressed content from S3?
The S3 Cookbook, an e-book written by Scott Patten, has easy-to-follow recipes to do those and about 60 other things .... In addition to the recipes, it also has chapters on S3’s architecture, authenticating S3 requests, and an overview of the S3 API.
Paul Dowman

Contents

Chapter 1: What is S3, and what can I use it for
Chapter 2: S3's Architecture
Chapter 3: S3 Recipes
Chapter 4: Authenticating S3 Requests
Chapter 5: The S3 API

The full Table of Contents is here.

About The Book

Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) has been described as “Storage in the cloud”. I like to think of it as Amazon lending you some hard-drive space on their servers, and giving you lots of interesting ways to put data there and share it with others.

Getting started with S3 is pretty straightforward, but even with its simple interface (really, because of its simplicity), there are a lot of things you can do with it. The S3 Cookbook will give you a quick introduction to S3’s architecture, get you set up with some tools, and then let you explore.

The recipes provide you with the code to do all of the everyday things that people are doing with S3, as well as the more esoteric ones. They will help you get the simple things done quickly, and inspire you with ideas of your own.

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