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Thank you for your interest in Amazon S3.
This section describes who should read this guide, how the guide is organized, and other resources related to Amazon S3.
Amazon S3 will occasionally be referred to within this guide as simply "S3"; all copyrights and legal protections still apply.
We hope you find the service to be easy-to-use, reliable, and inexpensive. If you want to provide feedback to the Amazon S3 development team, please post a message to the Amazon S3 Developer Forum.
This guide describes the Amazon S3 interfaces and functionality in detail and is intended for developers who are building application and services that need to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.
Use of this guide assumes you are familiar with the following:
XML (go to W3 Schools XML Tutorial)
Basic understanding of web services (go to W3 Schools Web Services Tutorial))
A programming language for consuming a web service and any related tools
You should also have read the Amazon S3 Getting Started Guide.
This guide is organized into several major sections described in the following table.
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General information about Amazon S3 | |
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Conceptual information about Amazon S3 | |
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Information about using Amazon S3 | |
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API Information | |
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Information about BitTorrent | |
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Typographic and symbol conventions |
Each section is written to stand on its own, so you should be able to look up the information you need and go back to work. However, you can also read through the major sections sequentially to get in-depth knowledge about the Amazon S3.
Following is a table that lists related resources that you'll find useful as you work with this service.
| Resource | Description |
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| Amazon S3 Getting Started Guide | The Getting Started Guide provides a quick tutorial of the service based on a simple use case. Examples and instructions for Java, Perl, PHP, C#, Python, and Ruby are included. |
| Amazon S3 Developer Guide | The Developer Guide (which you are reading) provides a detailed discussion of the service. It includes an overview, programming reference, and API reference. |
| Amazon S3 Release Notes | The Release Notes give a high-level overview of the current release. They specifically note any new features, corrections, and known issues. |
| AWS Developer Resource Center | A central starting point to find documentation, code samples, release notes, and other information to help you build innovative applications with AWS. |
| Amazon S3 product information | The primary web page for information about Amazon S3. |
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The home page for AWS Technical Support, including access to our Developer Forums, Technical FAQs, Service Status page, and (if you're subscribed to this program) AWS Premium Support. | |
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The primary web page for information about AWS Premium Support, a one-on-one, fast-response support channel to help you build and run applications on AWS Infrastructure Services. | |
| E-mail address for questions related to your AWS account: webservices@amazon.com | This e-mail address is only for account questions. For technical questions, use the AWS Support Center. |
