Amazon S3 Event Notifications

Subscribing and responding to changes within S3 buckets

Recently celebrating its fifteenth birthday, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was the first service to launch within the vast collection of AWS amenities available to us today. Offering everyone object storage in the cloud, S3 supports a wealth of APIs for object storage, retrieval, and versioning.

Objects within S3 are persisted to resources called buckets. These buckets, created by users, store unlimited numbers of objects each ranging from 0 to 5TB in size…