Disasters, such as data center failures, cyberattacks, or even user error can cause data loss or corruption. Implementing a business continuity and disaster recovery strategy can help you recover from disasters and data loss and resume operations with as little disruption as possible. In this course, you learn how to implement Amazon S3 features, such as data replication, versioning, and S3 Object Lock to meet the needs of your business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

• Course level: Advanced

• Duration: 50 minutes

Activities

This course includes interactive lessons, demonstrations, and knowledge checks.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Use versioning to recover from unintended user actions

• Use S3 Object Lock to protect objects from deletion

• Implement object replication to prevent data loss

Intended audience

• Cloud architects
• Storage architects
• Developers
• Operations engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Completed Architecting on AWS or equivalent experience

• Completed AWS Storage Offerings

• Completed Getting Started with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) 

Course outline

Section 1: Introduction

• Directions

• Course introduction

• Introduction to Amazon S3 business continuity and disaster recovery

Section 2: Protecting data from malicious and accidental deletions

• Using Amazon S3 versioning

• Managing versioning-enabled buckets

• Adding an extra layer of protection with MFA Delete

• Knowledge check

Section 3: Protecting data for governance and compliance purposes

• Introduction to Object Lock

• Implementing Object Lock

• Knowledge check

Section 4: Backing up data for compliance

• Introduction to object replication

• Assigning permissions for using replication

• Setting up replication

• Monitoring replication progress

• Knowledge check