Word of the Day: bucket (AWS bucket)

Word of the Day Daily updates on the latest technology terms |May 29, 2017

bucket (AWS bucket) A bucket is a logical unit of storage in Amazon Web Services (AWS) object storage service, Simple Storage Solution (S3). Buckets are used to store objects, which consist of data and metadata that describes the data. An S3 customer must create a bucket before he can store data in Amazon's public cloud and specify access privileges for the bucket by using the AWS Policy Generator. Although customers are not charged for creating buckets, they are charged for storing objects in a bucket and for transferring objects in and out of buckets. There is no limit to the number of objects a customer can store in a bucket, but each AWS account can only have 100 buckets at one time. Quote of the Day "Amazon S3 is an object store, which appears much like raw disk capacity. Customers simply create a 'bucket'; after doing so, they can put any amount of data in that bucket without deploying anything." - Alan R. Earls Related Terms and Tags RELATED TERMS Amazon S3 object storage cloud storage SLA Amazon Simple Database Service data lake RELATED TAGS AWS architecture and design Amazon S3 Simple Storage Service and backup   Learning Center Which AWS capabilities will withstand market saturation? Core AWS capabilities -- compute and storage -- are reaching feature saturation, and the cloud provider needs to continue evolving its services to maintain its pole position in the future. Amazon adds new features to S3 and zero-downtime migration for Aurora Amazon made enhancements and added features to its Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and its Amazon Aurora relational database. AWS storage doesn't have to be a complex undertaking, experts say Alan Earls explores different AWS storage services and offers advice to companies on how they can deduce which is a fit for their needs. Storage vs. database: Moving data to the AWS cloud David Linthicum reviews the database choices offered by Amazon Web Services and the advantages of leveraging object storage like Amazon Simple Storage Service. What's the best way to secure Amazon S3 buckets? Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) has a variety of security options. Policies and encryption are several ways to protect Amazon S3 buckets. Stay In Touch FOLLOW US CONTACT AN EDITOR For feedback about any of our articles or to send us your article ideas, please contact us at: mrouse@techtarget.com About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Whatis.com, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget, Whatis, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2016 TechTarget. All rights reserved.