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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

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