Amazon explain the process in their words here. Think of S3 as a web app where you can store and access files online.

This guide will help you in getting started with Amazon S3: what S3 is, what it costs, and what you might do with it.

If you’re here, you probably already have your own reasons for investigating S3, but for me it was a combination of cost (see below), wanting to learn more about how S3 works, and basically cutting out the middleman. Many of these services use Amazon S3, Amazon’s famous web storage service, part of Amazon Web Services. I could never imagine going back to the dark era of saving directly to the C drive, a time when one misplaced swing of your hard drive head could render your entire digital life erased forever.īut that’s not to say that Dropbox, or any of their rival clones like Google Drive or OneDrive, have to be the way forward. The ability to have files saved in the cloud, yet with the ease of use that comes with having them saved locally, is quite revolutionary.

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