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Simple Storage Service (S3)

Simple Storage Service (S3)

- [Instructor] Regardless of what you're trying to develop, there may be a case where you need to store some files online, and that's a great use for S3. So I'm going to go back to the console.aws.amazon.com, and I can either go to the Recently visited and pick S3, my favorites or in Services. I'm going to scroll down and click Storage and then S3, which is the Simple Storage Service from AWS. So this is kind of like hard drives. You may have heard of an S3 bucket. This is like a mounted hard drive, for example. So I'm going to click Create bucket, and this will create kind of the drive for me, but it's called a bucket. So I'm going to put mybucket in here, as the name. You could pick a different region if you want to. Buckets are accessible across regions. So if you have a Lambda in another region, it could still access it from here but for performance sake and possible legal issues, I wouldn't store it in other countries.…

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