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Amazon S3 offers APIs in REST and SOAP. Following are the most common operations you'll execute through the API.
Common Operations
Create a Bucket—Create and name your own bucket in which to store your objects.
Write an Object—Store data by creating or overwriting an object.
When you write an object, you specify a unique key in the namespace of your bucket. This is also a good time to specify any access control you want on the object.
Read an Object—Read data back.
You can choose to download the data via HTTP or BitTorrent.
Deleting an Object—Delete some of your data.
Listing Keys—List the keys contained in one of your buckets.
You can filter the key list based on a prefix.
Details on this and all other functionality are described in detail later in this guide.
