Terms Related to S3
Explore essential AWS S3 terminology including regions, user-defined metadata, and data consistency models. Learn how S3 ensures data availability with strong and eventual consistency, and understand bucket configuration impacts like versioning delays.
Regions
Regions are various geographical divisions that define the physical location of AWS data centers. Presently, there are 22 regions spread worldwide to ensure high availability. The regions cover:
- North America
- South America
- Europe and China
- Africa
- Asia Pacific
- Middle East
The various regions stand independent of each other. In the picture below we can see a few regions.
Regions and Availability Zones
AWS data centers are categorized and spread in various regions. Each region contains at least three availability zones.
User-defined metadata
User-defined metadata is additional and option ...
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