Machine Learning for Business

B.1 Creating and setting up a bucket in S3

You can think of a bucket as a top-level folder in a directory. AWS calls them buckets because they are globally unique. This means that you cannot have a bucket with the same name as a bucket someone else has created. The advantage of this is that each bucket can be assigned a unique address on the web and can be navigated to by anyone who knows the name of the bucket (of course, you would need to give them access to the bucket before they could get to the bucket or see anything in it). When you first open the S3 service in a new account, you are notified that you don’t have any buckets (figure B.2).

Figure B.2. S3 Dashboard before you have created any buckets

To create your first bucket, click ...