Day 7/30: Amazon S3 is not just a very large folder

S3 stores files as objects inside buckets.

It is commonly used for documents, images, videos, backups, logs and static website files.

It is highly scalable, but permissions still matter.

Before making a bucket public, ask:

“Should everybody on the internet be able to see this?”

If the answer is no, step away from the public-access settings.

S3 can store almost anything. That does not mean almost everyone should access it.