bucket

A part of an excavator which digs, lifts, and carries dirt.

A container for objects stored in Amazon S3. Every object is contained in a bucket. For example, if the object named photos/puppy.jpg is stored in the johnsmith bucket, then authorized users can access the object with the URL http://johnsmith.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/puppy.jpg.

A bucket is an S3 storage area assigned using a unique key. You can use buckets to make data public or private, and authenticate user access to your data. Currently, you can also requisition buckets in North America and Europe. Data in these buckets are stored in those geographic locations, but can be accessed from anywhere based on the authentication credentials that you specify.

A location in a "hash table" containing (potentially) multiple entries whose keys "hash" to the same hash value according to its hash function. (As internal policy, you don't have to worry about it, unless you're into internals, or policy.)