It's not a good model to think of S3 has having directories in a bucket. It's all objects. The web interface has a visual way of representing prefixes separated

It's not a good model to think of S3 has having directories in a bucket. It's all objects. The web interface has a visual way of representing prefixes separated by slashes. But that's just a nice way to present the objects. Each object has a key, and that key can contain slashes, and you can think of each segment to be a directory for your ease of mind. But that illusion breaks when you try to do operations you usually do with/on directories.