AWS S3 Management
Table of Contents
Overview
Amazon S3 provides secure, durable, and highly scalable object storage. Manage buckets with encryption, versioning, access controls, lifecycle policies, and cross-region replication for reliable data storage and retrieval.
When to Use
- Static website hosting
- Data backup and archival
- Media library and CDN origin
- Data lake and analytics
- Log storage and analysis
- Application asset storage
- Disaster recovery
- Data sharing and collaboration
Quick Start
Minimal working example:
bash# Create bucket aws s3api create-bucket \ --bucket my-app-bucket-$(date +%s) \ --region us-east-1 # Enable versioning aws s3api put-bucket-versioning \ --bucket my-app-bucket \ --versioning-configuration Status=Enabled # Block public access aws s3api put-public-access-block \ --bucket my-app-bucket \ --public-access-block-configuration \ BlockPublicAcls=true,IgnorePublicAcls=true,\ BlockPublicPolicy=true,RestrictPublicBuckets=true # Enable encryption aws s3api put-bucket-encryption \ --bucket my-app-bucket \ --server-side-encryption-configuration '{ "Rules": [{ "ApplyServerSideEncryptionByDefault": { "SSEAlgorithm": "AES256" } // ... (see reference guides for full implementation)
Reference Guides
Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:
| Guide | Contents |
|---|---|
| S3 Bucket Creation and Configuration with AWS CLI | S3 Bucket Creation and Configuration with AWS CLI |
| S3 Lifecycle Policy Configuration | S3 Lifecycle Policy Configuration |
| Terraform S3 Configuration | Terraform S3 Configuration |
| S3 Access with Presigned URLs | S3 Access with Presigned URLs |
Best Practices
✅ DO
- Enable versioning for important data
- Use server-side encryption
- Block public access by default
- Implement lifecycle policies
- Enable logging and monitoring
- Use bucket policies for access control
- Enable MFA delete for critical buckets
- Use IAM roles instead of access keys
- Implement cross-region replication
❌ DON'T
- Make buckets publicly accessible
- Store sensitive credentials
- Ignore CloudTrail logging
- Use overly permissive policies
- Forget to set lifecycle rules
- Ignore encryption requirements
