Creating an S3 Bucket

Introduction

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Unlike EC2 (which provides Block Storage like a hard drive), S3 provides Object Storage. You store files (objects) in containers called Buckets.

Bucket Naming Rules

Before creating a bucket, you must understand S3 naming rules. S3 bucket names must be globally unique across all AWS accounts in the world. If someone else on the planet has created a bucket named my-test-bucket, you cannot use that name, even though it's in your private account.

• Names must be between 3 and 63 characters long.
• Names can consist only of lowercase letters, numbers, dots, and hyphens.
• Names must not contain uppercase letters or underscores.

Creating a Bucket via CLI

While you can click through the AWS Management Console to create a bucket, doing it via the AWS CLI is much faster and scriptable.

# Basic creation (defaults to the region configured in your AWS CLI)
aws s3 mb s3://my-unique-company-assets-bucket-2023

# Create a bucket in a specific region
aws s3 mb s3://my-unique-company-assets-bucket-2023 --region eu-west-1

Uploading Objects

Once the bucket is created, you can interact with it using standard file system commands (like cp, mv, rm, ls) provided by the aws s3 CLI.

# Upload a single file to the bucket
aws s3 cp index.html s3://my-unique-company-assets-bucket-2023/

# Download a file from the bucket to the current local directory
aws s3 cp s3://my-unique-company-assets-bucket-2023/index.html .

# Sync an entire local directory to the bucket (great for static website hosting)
aws s3 sync ./build-folder s3://my-unique-company-assets-bucket-2023/

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