Amazon S3 Essentials

Sunil Gulabani

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781783554898
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Informatique
• Subtopic: Services Web et API

Get started with Amazon S3 for virtually unlimited cloud and Internet storage

About This Book

• Familiarize yourself with the concepts of Amazon S3
• Understand basic operations of bucket, folders, and objects using Amazon S3 SDK Java
• Leverage the power of Amazon S3 to effectively store and retrieve data

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for System Engineers/ Developers, Software Architects, Project managers, and users who want to explore Amazon S3 SDK Java. If you want to learn about Amazon S3 quickly, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Java programming is expected.

What You Will Learn

• Start with the basic concepts of Amazon S3 to get you going
• Use Copy Object and Multipart Copy Object for objects of different sizes
• Understand how to use the amazon management console for Amazon S3
• Learn how to use the AWS SDK of Java and consume the Amazon S3
• Get to grips with managing the bucket life cycle
• Configure CORS to share resources to a different domain
• Discover how to develop and deploy the static website on Amazon S3 using different services of Amazon

In Detail

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), provides developers and IT teams with secure, durable, and highly-scalable object storage. Amazon S3 is easy to use, with a simple web services interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web.

S3 is automatically web scalable and responds to the requirements of your application and traffic, and therefore offers a key element to help companies deal dynamically with any spike in traffic for their application (such as a free e-book offer).

This book starts with the basics of the Amazon S3 and its features, and you will quickly get an understanding how to use the Amazon Management Console for Amazon S3 which is the simplest way to manage Amazon S3. Next, we will cover basic operations on bucket, folder, objects. Once the basic operations are understood, you will know how to use Amazon S3 using Java SDK. Following that, you will learn about Copy Objects and Multipart copy objects for large objects size. You will also learn to manage the life cycle of bucket and how to share resources to the different domain by configuring CORS. The book will then guide you through the development and deployment of a static website on Amazon S3 using different services of Amazon.

By the end of the book, you will be able to create a scalable application using Amazon S3.

Style and approach

This fast-paced book is a pragmatic guide to writing Amazon S3 applications. Each chapter is blended beautifully with lucid concepts and pertinent examples.

Amazon S3 Essentials

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Table of Contents

Amazon S3 Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Know-How about S3

The need for S3 and its advantages

Basic concepts of Amazon S3

Buckets

Objects

Keys

Features of Amazon S3

Case studies

Use cases

Summary

2. S3 using the AWS Management Console

Logging in to the AWS Management Console

Bucket operations

Folder operations

Object operations

Use Reduced Redundancy Storage

Use Server Side Encryption

Versioning

Summary

3. S3 using AWS SDK – Java (Part 1)

Prerequisites

The AWS SDK for Java

The access key and secret key

Creating a group and attaching the AmazonS3FullAccess policy

Initialization

Using BasicAWSCredentials

Using ProfileCredentialsProvider

Bucket

Creating a bucket

Creating a bucket with versioning

Creating a bucket with logging

Folder

Objects

Uploading a file to a bucket

Uploading a file to a folder

Listing of bucket, folder, and objects

Delete operations

Summary

4. S3 using AWS SDK – Java (Part 2)

Copying objects

Bucket lifecycle

Cross-origin Resource Sharing

Summary

5. Deploying a Website on S3

Website configuration using the Amazon S3 Java SDK

Mapping a custom domain with website configuration in Amazon S3

Summary

Index

Amazon S3 Essentials

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Credits

Author

Sunil Gulabani

Reviewers

Guðmundur Jón Halldórsson

Parth Mehta

Commissioning Editor

Kunal Parikh

Acquisition Editors

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Content Development Editor

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Technical Editor

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About the Author

Sunil Gulabani is a software engineer based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and author of the book, Developing RESTful Web Services with Jersey 2.0, Packt Publishing. He completed his graduation in commerce from S M Patel Institute of Commerce (SMPIC) and obtained his master's degree in computer applications from AES Institute of Computer Studies (AESICS). Sunil presented a paper entitled Effective Label Matching For Automated Evaluation of Use Case Diagrams at an IEEE conference on Technology For Education (T4E) held at IIIT Hyderabad, along with senior lecturers, Vinay Vachharajani and Dr. Jyoti Pareek.

Since 2011, he has been working as a software engineer and is a cloud technology–savvy person. Sunil is experienced in developing enterprise solutions using Java Enterprise Edition. He has a keen interest in system architecture and integration, data modeling, relational databases, and mapping with NoSQL for high throughput.

Apart from this, Sunil is interested in writing tech blogs and is actively involved in knowledge-sharing communities.

You can visit him online at http://www.sunilgulabani.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/sunil_gulabani. You can also reach Sunil directly at <[email protected]>.

I would like to express my heartiest thanks to my parents, my wife, Priya, and family members, who supported me at each and every level of my career. I would also like to convey thanks to my friends and colleagues, without whom jumping onto the next step of my career would not be possible. Also, thanks to the Packt Publishing team, who gave me the opportunity to author this book.

About the Reviewers

Guðmundur Jón Halldórsson is a veteran software developer who has designed and built software for many of the biggest companies in Iceland. His focus is on finding big data solutions for his company.

Guðmundur is the chief technology officer of Medilync, a small medical device company in Iceland. Medilync was founded with the goal of revolutionizing the way diabetes is managed and treated in a value-based care landscape.

Guðmundur is the author of Apache Accumulo for Developers, Packt Publishing.

I want to thank my family because without them I would be lost.

Parth Mehta is a full stack software developer and earned his bachelor's degree in information technology from Vishwakarma Government Engineering College (VGEC).

He is an Oracle Certified Java programmer and also has experience in development and deployment of scalable and highly available application design with Advanced Java technologies and frameworks, Amazon Web Services, SOA with REST, and AngularJS.

Parth is passionate about learning alg...