AWS Elemental MediaStore concepts and terminology
- ARN
- Body
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The data to be uploaded into an object.
- (Byte) range
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A subset of object data to be addressed. For more information, see range
from the HTTP specification. - Container
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A namespace that holds objects. A container has an endpoint that you can use for writing and retrieving objects and attaching access policies.
- Endpoint
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An entry point to the MediaStore service, given as an HTTPS root URL.
- ETag
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An entity tag
, which is a hash of the object data. - Folder
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A division of a container. A folder can hold objects and other folders.
- Item
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A term used to refer to objects and folders.
- Object
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An asset, similar to an Amazon S3 object. Objects are the fundamental entities that are stored in MediaStore. The service accepts all file types.
- Origination service
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MediaStore is considered an origination service because it is the point of distribution for media content delivery.
- Path
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A unique identifier for an object or folder, which indicates its location in the container.
- Part
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A subset of data (chunk) of an object.
- Policy
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An IAM policy.
- Resource
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An entity in AWS that you can work with. Each AWS resource is assigned an Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that acts as a unique identifier. In MediaStore, this is the resource and its ARN format:
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Container:
aws:mediastore:region:account-id:container/:containerName
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