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title: "S3 Storage Management | Hostman Docs"
description: "Find out how to effectively manage your S3 storage for optimal organization."
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Data in [S3 storage](https://hostman.com/s3-storage/) is kept in a unified format: as objects stored in buckets (containers).

-   **Objects** are your files and data in any format. A **bucket** is the storage location for these objects. To place a file in S3 storage, it must be uploaded into a bucket.
    
-   Buckets can be either private or public, with different access methods. Only authorized users (administrators) can access objects in a private container.
    
-   There is a single storage user who has full rights to access all of their buckets. The **Access Key** and **Secret Access Key** are the same across different buckets within one account.