How to S3 concepts relate to standard filesystem concepts: Access keys, objects, ...
The following mapping is often useful
- Objects are essentially files
- Object keys are filenames
- An Access Key is essentially a username used for access to the S3 storage
- A Secret Key is essentially a password for a given access key = username
- Prefixes are folders
- A regionis conceptually a fileserver although in practice it consists of multiple servers linked together
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