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Web storage with Simple Storage Service (S3)

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Web storage with Simple Storage Service (S3)

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- S3 or Simple Storage Service was one of the first AWS services to launch, and it's like Dropbox without the downloadable clients for your computer and mobile devices. S3 buckets allow you to store images, and videos, and large files and share these assets directly with your users without having to configure servers and file shares like you would have done with EFS. Now, S3 is slower than both EFS and EBS, and I know it sounds similar to EFS, but with S3, you don't need a server to host your files. For example, in WordPress, you would use a plugin and tell it to store all the static stuff from the media library, like blog images and videos, in an S3 bucket. And then, when WordPress renders your site, it'll point directly to the S3 bucket's public URL to serve those images and videos independent of your server. Let's set up an S3 bucket and see what this thing can do. In the AWS console, click on the services search box…

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