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Amazon S3 provides the most durable storage in the cloud and industry leading availability. Based on its unique architecture, S3 is designed to provide 99.999999999% (11 nines) data durability and 99.99% availability by default, backed by the strongest SLAs in the cloud.
Manage your AWS cloud resources easily through a web-based interface using the AWS Management Console.
Set up and log into your AWS account. To use Amazon S3, you need an AWS account If you don't already have one, you'll be prompted to create one when you sign up for Amazon S3. You will not be charged for Amazon S3 until you use it. Create a bucket. Every object in Amazon S3 is stored in a bucket.
Amazon S3 is an object storage service that stores data as objects within buckets. An object is a file and any metadata that describes the file. A bucket is a container for objects. To store your data in Amazon S3, you first create a bucket and specify a bucket name and AWS Region.
If you are a new Amazon S3 customer, you can get started with Amazon S3 for free. For more information, see AWS Free Tier. To set up Amazon S3, use the steps in the following sections. When you sign up for AWS and set up Amazon S3, you can optionally change the display language in the AWS Management Console.
Use Amazon S3 to store, manage, analyze, and protect any amount of data for virtually any use case, such as data lakes, cloud-native applications, and mobile apps.
An access policy describes who has access to what things. When Amazon S3 receives a request, it must evaluate all of the access policies to determine whether to authorize or deny the request. For more information about how Amazon S3 evaluates these policies, see How Amazon S3 authorizes a request.
