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Bucket Explorer :: General Information about Bucket Explorer :: Bucket Explorer Definitions

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

2. What is virtual hosting?

3. What is multipart upload. How can it be provided by Bucket Explorer?

4. What is metadata on S3?

5. What are AWS Access Key and Secret Key? Why do I need these keys to run Bucket Explorer?

6. What is parallel queue processing?

7. What is ACL & how to use it?

8. What is third party bucket?

9. What is the difference between Amazon S3 & Amazon CloudFront?

10. What is system bucket and what is its use in Amazon S3 operations?

11. What is quick delete?

What is metadata on S3?

Every S3 object has a set of key-value pairs with which it is associated these are known as metadata. There are two kinds of metadata: system metadata, and user metadata. System metadata is used and processed by Amazon S3 and their behaviour depends on API (REST or SOAP) which you are using.
User metadata or custom headers entries are specified by you. Amazon S3 does not interpret this metadata—it simply stores it and passes it back when you ask for it.