Amazon S3 Storage Buckets | What Are They And How They Work

What is an Amazon S3 Storage Bucket?

Most people that are just starting to learn about the cloud hear about a service known as Amazon Simple Storage Service or AWS S3 for short. After learning about this service, one of the first questions that usually comes up is what is an Amazon S3 Storage Bucket?

An Amazon S3 storage bucket is the top level storage container of the Amazon Simple Storage Service. It is used to keep a group of project related objects, or files, together in a single location. You can think of it similarly to a hard drive, except with virtually unlimited storage capacity.