AWS S3 Hands-on
AWS Simple Storage Service is an object-based storage service built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web.
Before starting our hands-on with S3 please refer to our previous blog (if not yet) where we have discussed in detail S3 basics.
https://www.easydeploy.io/blog/?p=1468&preview=true
Let us straight away look at how to create an S3 bucket and upload our data into it by using the AWS management console.
- Log into console and go to S3 service, click on Create bucket. Give a unique name to your bucket (bucket names must be unique across AWS).
2. Block public access to your bucket by selecting Block Public access checkbox so that no outsider can access your data in the bucket. Select Tag as per the need and lastly click on Create bucket after which your bucket will be seen under Bucket list.
3. Upload your files by clicking on the Upload icon and select required Files or Folders. In order to view your S3 data through the internet make sure you have allowed Public access.
4. We can minimize the S3 cost by defining the lifecycle policy and storing the data in the best-fit storage class. In the below snip I have defined a rule such that my data would flow from S3 Standard to Standard IA after 30 days and will be moved to S3 Glacier after 90 days.
AWS S3 file/object size limit
Individual Amazon S3 objects can range in size from a minimum of 0 bytes to a maximum of 5 terabytes. The largest object that can be uploaded in a single PUT is 5 gigabytes. For objects larger than 100 megabytes, customers should consider using the Multipart upload capability.
Amazon S3 is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service in Amazon S3. CloudTrail captures a subset of API calls for Amazon S3 as events, including calls from the Amazon S3 console and code calls to the Amazon S3 APIs.
How to Host a Static Website using AWS S3.
Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can determine the request that was made to Amazon S3, the IP address from which the request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and additional details.
Event Notification in S3 is the feature that sends a notification message to a destination whenever the events occur. Before you can enable event notifications for your bucket, you must set up one of the destination types and then configure permissions.
How to Host a Static Website using AWS S3.
- In the above bucket go to Properties > Edit > Enable Static website hosting > Enter “index.html” for Index document and “error.html” for Error document.
- Upload the sample Index and Error HTML document into the same bucket.
- Edit public access settings to allow.
- Test your website by referring to the endpoint. Below is the example setup we made.
AWS S3 Bucket Policies
Bucket Policies define the set of permissions like who can access the bucket and what type of actions can be performed in it.
The below policy gives anonymous users read access to our above bucket.
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{
“Version”:”2012–10–17",
“Statement”:[
{
“Sid”:”PublicRead”,
“Effect”:”Allow”,
“Principal”: “*”,
“Action”:[“s3:GetObject”,”s3:GetObjectVersion”],
[“arn:aws:s3:::testbucket16072021/*"]
}
]
}
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AWS S3 CLI
You can manage your S3 service by using CLI tool in a more easy and faster way.
Few CLI commands are listed below:
- Create an S3 bucket — — — — “aws s3 mb s3://<<bucket-name>>”
- List all existing buckets — — — “aws s3 ls”
- List all objects in a bucket — — “aws s3 ls s3://<<bucket-name>>”
AWS S3 Pricing
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LEARN and BE CURIOUS!!!!!
Happy Learning,
Yogendra
