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What is S3?
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Abstract
S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) - object storage. You can think of it as cloud storage but designed for storing and retrieving large files. E.g. backups, archives, big data analytics, content distribution, and static website content.
S3 can be selfhosted (but you probably shouldn’t do it). In other cases, company probably will use Amazon’s S3 or one of those providers:
- DigitalOcean
- DreamHost
- GCP
- Linode
- Scaleway
S3 have “buckets” - container/folder for files.