Chapter 7. Storing your objects: S3 and Glacier
This chapter covers
- Transferring files to S3 with the help of the terminal
- Integrating S3 into your applications with SDKs
- Hosting a static website with S3
- Diving into the internals of the S3 object store
You can store images, videos, documents, and executables with the help of an object store. You’ll learn about the concept of an object store in this chapter. In addition, we’ll introduce a managed service on AWS offering an object store: Amazon S3. You’ll also learn about Amazon Glacier, a backup and archiving store.
Not all examples are covered by the Free Tier
The examples in this chapter are not all covered by the Free Tier. A special warning message appears when an example incurs costs. As long as you don’t run all other examples longer than a few days, you won’t pay anything for them. Keep in mind that this applies only if you created a fresh AWS account for this book and nothing else is going on in your AWS account. Try to complete the examples of the chapter within a few days; you’ll clean up your account at the end of each example.