Creating, configuring, and working with Amazon S3 buckets
To store your data in Amazon S3, you work with resources known as buckets and objects. A bucket is a container for objects. An object is a file and any metadata that describes that file.
To store an object in Amazon S3, you create a bucket and then upload the object to a bucket. When the object is in the bucket, you can open it, download it, and move it. When you no longer need an object or a bucket, you can clean up your resources.
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For more information about using the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class with directory buckets, see S3 Express One Zone and Working with directory buckets.
Note
With Amazon S3, you pay only for what you use. For more information about Amazon S3 features and
pricing, see Amazon S3
The topics in this section provide an overview of working with buckets in Amazon S3. They include information about naming, creating, accessing, and deleting buckets. For more information about viewing or listing objects in a bucket, see Organizing, listing, and working with your objects.
Topics
- Buckets overview
- Common bucket patterns for building applications on Amazon S3
- General purpose bucket naming rules
- Bucket quotas, limitations, and restrictions
- Accessing an Amazon S3 bucket
- Creating a bucket
- Viewing the properties for an S3 bucket
- Listing Amazon S3 buckets
- Emptying a bucket
- Deleting a bucket
- Working with Mountpoint for Amazon S3
- Working with Storage Browser for Amazon S3
- Configuring fast, secure file transfers using Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
- Using Requester Pays buckets for storage transfers and usage
