An Introduction to AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)
This video will take you through how to get started with AWS S3.
Related blog post: https://mattsegal.dev/aws-s3-intro.html
Update: AWS also ships a self-contained CLI tool that doesn't need to be installed in a virtual environment, which you can read about here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/lates...
Sometimes when you're running a web app you will find that you have a lot of files on your server. All these files will start to feel like a burden. You might worry about losing them all if the server fails, or you might be concerned about running out of disk space. You might even have multiple servers that all need to access these files.
Wouldn't it be nice if solving all these issues were someone else's problem? You would pay a few cents a month so that you never need to think about this again, right? I like using cloud object storage for hosting most of my web app's files and backups. If you haven't heard of "object storage" before: it's just a kind of cloud service where you can store a bunch of files.
