Getting Started with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics. In this course, you acquire the knowledge you need to start using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You learn about the key elements of Amazon S3 and explore how to configure them. You learn how to upload data to Amazon S3 and what additional AWS services you can use to transfer data to Amazon S3 at scale. You also learn the basic elements of security within Amazon S3. Finally, you review how Amazon S3 integrates with other services for specific use cases.

• Course level: Intermediate

• Duration: 60 minutes

Activities

This course includes online materials and a knowledge check.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Describe the main components of an Amazon S3 implementation

• Describe the tools and operations you can use to interact with Amazon S3

• Explain the requirements for and limitations of uploading data to Amazon S3

• Create an Amazon S3 bucket and upload an object to it

• Describe the main security and access control mechanisms available in Amazon S3

• Block public access to an S3 bucket

• Describe key Amazon S3 integrations with other services for specific use cases

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Cloud architects

• Storage architects

• Developers

• Operations engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Completed Getting Started with AWS Storage 

Course outline

Section 1: Amazon S3 Fundamentals

• Course introduction

• Storage fundamentals

• Amazon S3 fundamentals

• Interfacing with Amazon S3

Section 2: Data Management and Security

• Amazon S3 data management

• Cloud data migration services

• Securing data access

• Encrypting data

• Amazon S3 service integration

• Knowledge check