Virtual hosting of Bucket :-

On the Internet, virtual hosting is the provision given by Web server hosting services so that a company (or an individual) doesn't have to purchase and maintain its own Web server.

A virtual hosting provider is sometimes called a Web or Internet "space provider."

Virtual hosting , is the practice of serving multiple web sites from a single web server.

Using Amazon  S3 Virtual Hosting, You can use your own domain name in an Amazon S3 bucket.

The formats of URL which are used by Amazon S3 are:-

•  s3.amazonaws.com/bucketname/filename.

•  bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com/filename.

For example:- s3.amazonaws.com/myimage/image1.jpg.
Here bucket name is myimage and file name is image1.jpg

Bucket name as Virtual Host:-

To host a website in Amazon  S3 using this method, you must setup your domain name as a CNAME alias for s3.amazonaws.com.

•  Identify the exact name of your domain.

•  Create a bucket whose name is same as your domain name.

•  Put your contents into this bucket and assign Read permission to AllUsers.

Furthermore, by naming your bucket as your registered domain name and by making that name a DNS alias for Amazon  S3 , you can completely customize the URL of your Amazon  S3 resources,

Now, the steps to get “Bucket Name as virtual host” with Bucket Explorer are:-

1. Create a bucket with “Create bucket” option, by giving the bucket name same as the domain name.

2. Upload the files in this bucket with the “upload Object(s)” option.

3. Select the object and right click to choose option “Generate Web URL”.

4. Click on “Use Bucket Name as Virtual Host” button.

5. You will get the urls as “Bucket name as virtual host”.

For example, http://mybucketname.com

Here bucket name is mybucketname.com.