Skip to main content

Amazon S3 Bucket ---> Why Should I Use It?

                              S3 BUCKET                              

Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3).

We all use buckets to store things.  Pictures, liquid, tools, toys...they all have to be kept somewhere.  What about data?

That's where an AWS S3 Bucket can come in handy.  Data can get just as messy and chaotic to organize as tools and toys, especially if you have large amounts of data you need to keep track of.  Storing that data on your hard drive is not good because it will use up your hard drive storage as well as slow down your computer.  Putting data in a cloud based storage system, however, will allow you to store many different kinds of data (such as audio, jpg, and XML files) as well as organize that data into a system that is easy to access.


Organizing data into an AWS S3 Bucket is a lot like a tree as well as a file system.  S3 has it's own terminology as well.  See below for the three different analogies that are used:

          TREE                      File System           S3

Root Of The Tree = Your Root Directory,  Bucket

Branches On The Tree = Your Directory,  Folder

Leaves On The Tree =  Your Files,   Key 

                                                                            Leaf Juice = The Contents that are WITHIN Your File, Value


For example purposes, this is a visual of what that looks like:


-STORES     
     - Tiffany&Co
        - RingsPhotos
             - EngagementRing
             - WeddingBand
        - NecklacePhotos
             - TiffanyTwist
             - Tiffany1837
     - SnapOnTools
        - HandToolPhotos
              - Wrench 
              - DriveTool 
         - PowerToolPhotos
              - PowerTool 
I am SCP'ing HTML and JavaScript data to my EC2 Instance, but my audio and jpg files will be stored in my AWS S3 bucket.

Follow me as I learn to build my website bit by bit!    IronTreeDev.com


Photo by Phil Hearing on Unsplash
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash
Photo by Mr Cup / Fabien Barral on Unsplash

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

XPATH and XPATH Expressions In XMLLINT

XPATH And XPATH Expressions Earlier, I told you about xmllint and xmllint for html files .  Let's say you just want to parse the <span> tags within your html file or just your <span lang="el"> tags? Enter:  Xpath. Xpath is yet another option available within the xmllint language. Remember, an Xpath is used to navigate through elements and attributes in xml and html documents.  Xpath uses Xpath Expressions to select nodes or node sets within a document. Example 1 .  Looking for all of the <span> tags within an html document. xmllint -- html -- xpath " // span" StedmanLesson10.html xmllint = This tells the command line that we are going to be using the xmllint language. space = because we always have space in between commands -- = Remember, these are the two hyphen-minus characters that we need to tell the command line that we are going to use an xmllint option. html = This is the xmllint option we want to ...
Post a Comment
Read more

SCP: Secure Copy Protocol

SCP = Secure Copy Protocol.  What is it and why is it important?   SCP provides a secure way to transfer files from one computer to another. For the project that I'm working on, I needed to SCP (send a copy) the XML files, as well as the image files, from my computer to my EC2 Instance (my web server).  Once done,  my teacher was be able to view my work via my website. Here are the steps to do this: 1.  Open two command windows (the program for my computer is called Terminal). 2.  Let's say the file I want to send is called "SallysFirstDate.xml" and it is located in the "tomy" folder.  Here is where that file lives: /Documents/path/tomy/SallysFirstDate.xml I need to first issue the command to "change directory"(cd) through each folder until I reach the folder that my file is located in.   It would look like this: cd /Documents THEN I need to "cd" again into the "path" folder: cd path THEN I need to "c...
5 comments
Read more

What Is Linux and Why Should You Learn It

What does a photo of corn kernels have to do with Linux?  Typically when I hear the word kernel , I think of a kernel of corn.  When you are talking about Linux however, you are talking about the kernel of the system.  In order to understand what that means, we need to first understand what a kernel is.    A kernel is the central or most important part of something.   When we are talking about technology, the kernel is a core component of a computer's operating system .  The kernel acts like a bridge and manager between the hardware and the software of that operating system.  It runs behind the scene and cannot be seen.  It directs, controls, monitors, and manages a system. Linux is the central controller of everything that happens on the computer.   It is loaded when the computer is booted and it stays running until the computer is shut down.  It manages every aspect of the functioning system while that system is on. What k...
Post a Comment
Read more