Introduction

S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a highly scalable, object-based cloud storage service used for storing and retrieving data.

There are different way of performing actions on files (e.g. upload, download, read, delete) or bucket specifically (e.g. create bucket) on s3 buckets:

• general packages (s3cmd, rclone, awscli): s3 from command line
• specific clients' packages (e.g. boto3 or s3fs Python libraries): s3 using Python libraries.

With S3 buckets, accessing data is even easier than before. For those who want to use Python (encouraged), it is easy as pie.

Make sure you have these ready:

1. Python 3
2. Project ID of the bucket you want to mount
3. Access key and secret access key for the bucket

Take a look at this code segment, which allows you to access the bucket, list its objects and upload/download files from it. Feel free to copy paste this segment and fill in with your own values.

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