CSC/ECE 517 Spring 2015/ch1a 7 SA

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https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/document/d/1TgBtp7flIPKJwkkShgtcIkt--mtHuwVHsQX6Tpzj1rc/edit

Background

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a remote, scalable, secure, and cost efficient storage space service provided by Amazon. Users are able to access their storage on Amazon S3 from the web via REST [1] HTTP [2], or SOAP [3] making their data accessible from virtually anywhere in the world.

S3 is an example of an object storage and is not like traditional hierarchical file systems. Data is stored as objects and a collection of objects is stored in a bucket. Within each bucket, any number of objects can be stored. Each bucket is identified by a name and there is a limit of 100 buckets per account. S3 provides APIs to interact with buckets and objects.

Amazon S3 launched in March of 2006 in the United States [4] and in Europe in November of 2007 [5]. Since its inception, Amazon S3 has reported tremendous growth, now up to two trillion objects and on average 1.1 million requests every second! [6].

Examples

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