Store and Retrieve a File

with Amazon S3

Introduction

This stride-past-stride tutorial will help you shop your files in the cloud using Amazon Elementary Storage Solution (S3). Amazon S3 is a service that enables you to store your data (referred to as objects) in at massive scale. In this tutorial, you will create an Amazon S3 bucket, upload a file, remember the file and delete the file.

This tutorial is achievable within the AWS Gratuitous Tier.

 Cost to Complete

 Services Used

Storing Your Files with AWS
Requires an Account

Implementation

  • Enter the Amazon S3 Panel

    When you click here, the AWS Management Panel will open up in a new browser window, so y'all can keep this stride-by-stride guide open up.  When the screen loads, enter your user proper name and password to get started. And so type S3 in the search bar and select S3 to open up the panel.

    AWS Management Console

  • Create an S3 Bucket

    In this step, you volition create an Amazon S3 bucket. A saucepan is the container yous store your files in.

    a.  In the S3 dashboard, click Create Bucket.

    If this is the showtime time you have created a saucepan, you will see a screen that looks like the image pictured here.

    If yous take already created S3 buckets, your S3 dashboard volition list all the buckets yous take created.

    Create S3 bucket

    b. Enter a bucket proper noun. Bucket names must be unique across all existing bucket names in Amazon S3. There are a number of other restrictions on S3 bucket names also. And then select a region to create your saucepan in.

    Select Next.

    Enter bucket name

    S3 bucket options

    d. You take the ability to set permission settings for your S3 saucepan. Exit the default values and selectAdjacent.

    S3 bucket permission settings

    e.  Review your configuration settings and select Create saucepan.

    S3 bucket configuration settings

  • Upload a File

    In this step, y'all will upload a file to your new Amazon S3 bucket.

    a.  You will run across your new bucket in the S3 console. Click on your bucket'due south proper noun to navigate to the bucket.

    Click on your bucket’s name to navigate to the bucket

    b.  You are in your bucket'due south dwelling house page. Select Upload.

    Select upload

    c. To select a file to upload, either click Add files and select a sample file that you would like to store OR Drag and Drop a file on the upload box. Select Side by side later on you have selected a file to upload.

    Upload a file

    d. You have the power to fix permission settings on your object. For this tutorial, exit the default values and select Next.

    Set permission settings

    e. You take the ability to fix property settings similar storage class, encryption, and metadata with your object. Leave the default values and select Side by side.

    Property settings

    f. Review your configurations and select Upload. Y'all will see your object in your bucket's home screen.

    Review configurations and select upload

  • Call back the Object

    In this stride, you will download the file from your Amazon S3 saucepan.

    a. Select the checkbox next to the file you would similar to download, and then select Download.

    Select the checkbox next to the file you would like to download, then select Download

  • Delete the Object and Bucket

    You can easily delete your object and bucket from the Amazon S3 panel. In fact, it is a best practice to delete resources you are no longer using and so you don't continue getting charged for them.

    a. Yous volition offset delete your object. Select the checkbox next to the file you lot desire to delete and select More than > Delete.

    Delete your object

    b.  Review and ostend the object you want to delete. Select Delete.

    Review and confirm the object you want to delete

    c. Click on Amazon S3 to view all your buckets in the region.

    Click on Amazon S3 to view all your buckets in the region

    d. Click to the right of the bucket name of the bucket you lot created to selected it, then click Delete. Blazon in the proper noun of your bucket and click Ostend.

    Delete bucket

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Congratulations!

You have backed up your kickoff file to the cloud by creating an Amazon S3 bucket and uploading your file every bit an S3 object. Amazon S3 is designed for 99.999999999% immovability to help ensure that your data is ever available when you want information technology. You lot've besides learned how to retrieve your backed upwardly file and how to delete the file and bucket.