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AWS S3 Bucket limitations

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Software systems always have some limits, reasons for limitations can varies. Hard limits boils down to limitations of underlying hardware resources. Soft limits can be to avoid noisy neighbor problems, that's where rate-limiting, service quotas comes into place. Let's explore on limitations of AWS S3 bucket   Number of S3 buckets in a AWS Account By default, you can create up to 100 buckets in each of your AWS accounts. If you need additional buckets, you can increase your account bucket limit to a maximum of 1,000 buckets by submitting a service limit increase. There is no difference in performance whether you use many buckets or just a few. TL;DR; 1000 buckets per account Cannot change S3 Bucket name or Region When you create a bucket, you choose its name and the AWS Region to create it in. After you create a bucket, you can't change its name or Region. Reuse S3 bucket name You can reuse S3 bucket name, but.. when you delete the bucket and the name becomes available for