REST API with S3 Integration
Explore how to create a REST API using AWS API Gateway integrated with Amazon S3. Understand how to configure API methods like GET and PUT to manage files in S3 buckets, enabling scalable object storage accessible via HTTP requests.
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Storage service
Amazon S3 provides a great combination of availability, latency, and price. Most applications hosted on AWS use S3 in one form or another. It's not a database in the traditional sense but an object store or a file store. As a result, we can save a large amount of data at a low cost.
We can build an API with S3 integration to enhance this functionality and make it available outside AWS boundaries.
Example
To understand this integration, let’s create a simple API to access files in an S3 bucket. We can build a key-value store API out of S3 and API Gateway. It can be ...