Nov

26

How Do Amazon S3 Accounts Work?

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To use the Amazon S3 web service you need to have an account – its free to create one – there are NO setup fees involved! To create an account you will sign up with an email (username) and password.

Once you successfully sign-up with a new account, Amazon will prompt you on your AWS Access Identifiers, which includes your Access Key ID and Secret Access Key. Keep them safe!

When you upload anything to Amazon S3, it stores YOUR data as an “object” on the Amazon network.

EACH object can be up to a maximum 5 GB in size, for MOST users uploading a file of less than 100 MB is normal.

Each “object” is contained within a “bucket”.  Honestly you DO get used to these terms after a short while!

Each Amazon S3 account can have a maximum of 100 Buckets. Each Bucket can hold an UNLIMITED amount of Objects (your data files).

If you need more Buckets, that’s no problem. Just create a second Amazon S3 account (you just need a different eMail address).

Software like Data Bucket Pro can hold and manage MULTIPLE accounts for you – so don’t worry about that!

In practice though most users will have only a single Amazon S3 account… And remember once a bucket name has been taken it is GONE for use by anyone else!

Kind Regards

Marc Liron MVP

Nov

25

Amazon S3 Bucket Name Restrictions

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There are some Amazon S3 bucket restrictions and limitations you MUST be aware of…

A bucket is owned by the AWS account (identified by AWS Access Key ID) that created it. Each AWS account can own up to 100 buckets at a time. Bucket ownership is NOT transferable. However, if a bucket is empty, it can be deleted and its name can be reused by anyone else who wants it.

For instance I currently “own” the bucket names; entrepreneur / blogging / internetmarketing / socialmediamarketing. If I delete them from my account, they would then be available for others to claim.

Buckets have the following restrictions:

# Bucket names can ONLY contain numbers, periods (.), underscores (_), and dashes (-).
# Bucket names MUST start with a number or letter.
# Bucket names MUST be between 3 and 255 characters long.
# Bucket names CANNOT be in an IP address style (e.g., “192.168.5.4″).

To conform with DNS requirements, (basically if you want to create a URL to share the files), Amazon HIGHLY recommend following these additional guidelines when creating buckets:

# Bucket names should NOT contain underscores (_).
# Bucket names should be between 3 and 63 characters long.
# Bucket names should NOT end with a dash.
# Dashes cannot appear next to periods. For example, “my-.bucket.com” and “my.-bucket” are invalid names.
# Bucket names should NOT contain UPPERCASE letters.

This means that if you want to use the bucket with a URL, rather than for personal data storage that never needs to be shared, you MUST obey these last 4 points!

Kind Regards

Marc Liron MVP

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