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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 third party bucket?

A bucket which you access from other's account, in Bucket Explorer, we call it a Friend's Bucket or a Third Party Bucket. Read/ Write operations over such bucket depend on the permissions which can only be set by the bucket owner.