Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is ) is a highly scalable, secure, and durable cloud storage service for storing and retrieving data. It uses "buckets" to organize objects and offers multiple storage tiers to optimize costs based on access needs. S3 is a great option for backups, data archiving, application hosting, and big data analytics. Amazon S3 an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. You can use Amazon S3 to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere.

This article assumes that you have created an AWS S3 bucket and are either the owner or have access rights to the bucket. If you have not created an AWS S3 bucket, please see our Creating and Configuring an Amazon AWS S3 Bucket article.

Creating key and secret key pair

In order to to have the aws-cli authenticate access to S3 buckets, you will have to run the aws configure command. This command will prompt you to enter a bucket key, secret bucket key and a S3 bucket region in order to create two authentication files: credentials and config; Both of which are stored in $HOME/.aws

Navigate to the AWS IAM Console and go to the S3 link:

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The link should navigate you to a page that shows all of the buckets that you currently either own or have access to. You can create a new bucket from this page as well:

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