Amazon S3’s flat, non-hierarchical structure and various management features are helping customers of all sizes and industries organize their data in ways that are valuable to their businesses and teams. All objects are stored in S3 buckets and can be organized with shared names called prefixes.

How is S3 stored?

Amazon S3 data is stored as objects. This approach enables highly scalable storage in the cloud. Objects can be placed on a variety of physical disk drives distributed throughout the data center. Amazon data centers use specialized hardware, software, and distributed file systems to provide true elastic scalability.

Do S3 buckets have folders?

You can have folders within folders, but not buckets within buckets. … An object that is named with a trailing “/” appears as a folder in the Amazon S3 console. The Amazon S3 console does not display the content and metadata for such an object.