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Software Integration Series: Spring Boot and Amazon S3 Integration
A detailed guide on integrating Spring Boot and Amazon S3 with a sample application and Infrastructure-as-Code templates.
Welcome to my first article in the Software Integration Series. In this series, I will deep dive into various topics using Java tech stack, AWS cloud and many more. Without further ado let’s get started.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, secure, and performant object storage service. It provides management features so that we can optimize, organize, and configure access to our data to meet specific business and compliance requirements.
This article walkthrough is a step-by-step guide about how to integrate Amazon S3 with a Spring Boot application.
Creating an Amazon S3 bucket using IaC tools
We will use Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) template to create a S3 bucket. You can find two sample templates using both CloudFormation and Terraform tools in my GitHub repository. Use the tool of your choice and create a S3 bucket using the template.
The CloudFormation template creates IAM user, access key and outputs the values of access key and secret in the console. As a security best practice, it is not recommended to use IAM access keys when…
