Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Essentials - Beyond the Basics

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Essentials - Beyond the Basics provides you with the opportunity to gain the skills necessary to start building and securing resources in Amazon S3.

In this course you first learn how to manage, configure, and upload data to Amazon S3.  Then you are introduced to securing, encrypting, and tagging your data, and which services you can use to transfer data at scale into Amazon S3. Finally, you explore two use cases, one that employs Amazon S3 as a data lake and another that illustrates using Amazon S3 as a repository for a high performance computing environment.

Activities

• Presentation
• Knowledge checks

Course objectives

• Define fundamental components of Amazon S3.
• Create and upload objects to an Amazon S3 bucket.
• Compare data migration services that integrate with S3 and when to use them.
• Describe the main security features Amazon S3 offers.
• Summarize how to block public access to an Amazon S3 bucket.
• Discuss Amazon S3 integration as a data lake and high performance compute environment.

Intended audience

• Cloud architects
• Storage architects
• Developers
• Operations engineers

Recommended Skills

• Basic knowledge of the AWS Cloud
• Completed Getting Started with AWS Storage
• Completed of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Getting Started

Course outline

• Module 1: Amazon S3 Fundamentals
  • Storage Fundamentals
  • Amazon S3 Fundamentals
  • Interfacing with Amazon S3
• Module 2: Data Management and Security
  • Amazon S3 Data Management
  • Cloud Data Migration Services
  • Securing Data Access
  • Encrypting Data
  • Amazon S3 Service Integration
• Module 3: Knowledge Check and Feedback
  • Knowledge Check
  • Feedback