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Frequently Asked Questions

Bucket Explorer :: General information :: Definitions

1. What's a bucket? Why do you call it Bucket Explorer?
2. What is system bucket and what is its use in Amazon S3 operations?
3. What is quick delete?
4. What is virtual hosting?
5. What is metadata on S3?
6. What are AWS Access Key and Secret Key? Why do I need these keys to run Bucket Explorer?
7. What is Amazon CloudFront, how it works quickly?
8. What is distribution?
9. What is parallel queue processing?
10. What is ACL & how to use it?
11. What is third party bucket?
12. What is the difference between Amazon S3 & Amazon CloudFront?

What's a bucket? Why do you call it Bucket Explorer?

Every object stored on S3 is placed in a bucket. A bucket is simply a way to group objects together and aggregate them for the purposes of usage tracking.
It provides interface to explore & manage the data stored in Amazon S3 Buckets that's why we call it Bucket Explorer.