Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Description
Comprehensive understanding of AWS S3 including bucket management, storage classes, lifecycle policies, security, and advanced features for scalable object storage.
Learning Objectives
Learners will master S3 fundamentals including bucket creation and management, understanding different storage classes for cost optimization, implementing lifecycle policies, configuring bucket policies and ACLs for security, enabling versioning and MFA delete, setting up cross-region replication, and implementing advanced features like S3 Transfer Acceleration and CloudFront integration.
Topics (10)
Core concepts of S3 including bucket naming conventions, object keys, metadata, and basic operations like PUT, GET, DELETE.
Detailed comparison of Standard, Standard-IA, One Zone-IA, Glacier, Glacier Deep Archive, and Intelligent-Tiering storage classes.
Configuring bucket policies, Access Control Lists (ACLs), IAM policies, and implementing security best practices for S3.
Understanding object versioning, managing multiple versions, implementing MFA delete protection, and version lifecycle management.
Setting up automatic replication of objects across AWS regions for data protection, compliance, and latency optimization.
Setting up event notifications for S3 operations to trigger Lambda functions, SQS, SNS, and other AWS services for automated processing.
Configuring transfer acceleration to leverage CloudFront's globally distributed edge locations for faster data uploads to S3.
Setting up S3 buckets for static website hosting, configuring custom domains, implementing redirects, and integrating with CloudFront for HTTPS.
Techniques for optimizing S3 performance including request rate optimization, multipart uploads, and parallel processing strategies.
Creating and managing lifecycle rules to automatically transition objects between storage classes and implement automated deletion policies.