Creating a Folder inside an Amazon S3 Bucket

Introduction

The AWS S3 console allows you to create folders for grouping objects. This can be a very helpful organizational tool. However, in Amazon S3, buckets and objects are the primary resources. A folder simply becomes a prefix for object key names that are virtually archived into it.

Instructions

1. Return to the Buckets menu, and click on the bucket you created earlier. (Reminder: Your bucket name will differ slightly.)

2. Click Create folder:

3. In the Folder name textbox, enter cloudfolder:

4. Scroll to the bottom and click Create folder:

The folder is created inside your S3 bucket:

Summary

In this lab step, you created a folder that can help with organizing objects within an S3 bucket. A folder within a bucket can be helpful programmatically as well. For example, you can configure your application to output certain file types (such as PNG) to a specific folder name (image-output).