Rules

Region based/resilient.

  • Bucket names are unique, can’t represent ip addresses
  • Soft limit 100 per account, hard limit 1000 per account
  • Does not have “folders”, it represents folders but it’s actually a prefix + key (filename.)
  • Object size 0B to 5TB

S3 Does not have filesystem (no files or blocks), can’t mount to it, just holds files. Great for offload and distribution.
S3 is a default to store data in large quantities.


Also AWS Objects can have Metadata (key/value pair), Tags, Version ID