Working with the Amazon S3 service is pretty easy if you understand the basic concepts of S3 and are using one of the AWS-provided SDKs, like the AWS SDK for PHP. This presentation and corresponding demo code will show you how it's done.
storage cloud-based service provided by AWS. First released in 2006. Very popular, and has tons of features. Blob Storage A service for storing and retrieving “blob”s, or “object”s, which are essentially chunks of text or binary data. We typically call these “files” locally. AWS Amazon Web Services. A large suite of web services and APIs for manipulating data and infrastructure in Amazon’s cloud. AWS SDK for PHP An AWS-supported PHP library for interacting AWS’s services and APIs. It is built on Guzzle. Guzzle A popular HTTP client library for PHP that implements PSR-7 and middleware, and provides an abstraction layer over cURL. PSR-7 A PSR (PHP Standards Recommendation) created by the PHP-FIG to define standard interfaces for HTTP Request and Response objects. 4
us-east-1, us-west-2) ◇ bucket: Your bucket name (they are globally unique) ◇ key: Path to the specific object in the bucket A prefix is the first part of a path key. Usually used to represent a “directory” (e.g., foo/bar/baz.json). When you list objects, you list them by a prefix. 10