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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.

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