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Rajesh Daswani
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Rajesh Daswani is a senior solutions architect, AWS course content creator, and corporate trainer with over 20 years' experience in core IT infrastructure services and cloud computing. He has delivered corporate training programs and online training for several clients across the UK, USA, and India and published courses for Packt Publishing. Rajesh now delivers courses for the IaaS Academy, an online training provider that delivers on-demand cloud computing training and practice exam simulators to help students and IT professionals ace IT certification exams. You will also find extensive blog articles and exam tips on the IaaS Academy website to help you with your study and revision.
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Introduction to Amazon S3

Amazon S3 is one of Amazon's flagship products, and offers a robust, scalable, durable, and cost-effective object storage solution in the cloud. Customers can use Amazon S3 to store any amount of data for a wide range of use cases, including digital media content for websites, data lakes, mobile applications, IoT device data, and big data analytics.

Amazon S3 can offer up to 99.999999999% durability and fulfills the storage requirements for a majority of clients and their individual business needs.

What does eleven 9s of durability mean? According to AWS, if you store 10,000,000 objects on Amazon S3, then on average you can expect to incur a loss of a single object once every 10,000 years. You can review all frequently asked questions (FAQs) for Amazon S3 here: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/.

Buckets and objects

Before you can upload any data to Amazon S3, you need to create a container called a bucket. Buckets need to have a unique global...

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Rajesh Daswani

Rajesh Daswani is a senior solutions architect, AWS course content creator, and corporate trainer with over 20 years' experience in core IT infrastructure services and cloud computing. He has delivered corporate training programs and online training for several clients across the UK, USA, and India and published courses for Packt Publishing. Rajesh now delivers courses for the IaaS Academy, an online training provider that delivers on-demand cloud computing training and practice exam simulators to help students and IT professionals ace IT certification exams. You will also find extensive blog articles and exam tips on the IaaS Academy website to help you with your study and revision.
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