What is S3 Bucket & How to mount a S3 Bucket as a Drive (network drive)

S3 bucket [Simple Storage]

• Also known as Object Storage & is similar to your computer storage (like local disk D:) but virtually.
• In this storage, you can store all of your data (pics, videos and documents , files).
• 99.99% availability
• 99.999999999% (11x9) durability
• Storage : 0 bytes to 5 terabytes
• Tiered Storage Available
• Lifecycle Management
• Versioning
• Encryption
• Secure your data using Access Control Lists and Bucket Policies.

How to create a S3 bucket

• Open the Amazon S3 console

• Choose Create bucket.

• Enter Bucket name, Start with a lowercase letter or number.
• In Region, choose the AWS Region where you want the bucket to reside.
• ACLs enabled

• You can Enable versioning

• Choose Create bucket.

• Now You Have Successfully Created a S3 Bucket.

• Inside that bucket you can add upload any file.

• Click on add file , browse and select it.

• Make Url public .

• Copy and paste that public Url in browser[Publicly accessible].

After that we have to create a user(IAM user)

• Search for IAM.

• Go to users.
• Add User

• Next permission

• Now select attach existing policies and search for s3 full access

• Next tag
• Create user.

• Now click on download.csv file and copy access and secreat keys.

Download Tntdrive

• One such way is to download a Tntdrive.

• open Tntdrive
  -Write account name , select account type Amazon S3 & paste access and secreat keys.

• Click on add new account
• Add new mapped drive
• Amazon s3 bucket - browse and select the IAM user you created.

• Add new drive

• click on open

• Network drive successfully created on your local disk

You can now add anything inside this disk , it will reflect in s3 bucket.