Managing Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Course description

Amazon S3 provides a full portfolio of storage management tools that help you easily manage your storage as it grows. With Amazon S3, you can organize, automate, and monitor your data to meet your specific business and organizational requirements.

In this course, you learn about the techniques that you can use to simplify management of your Amazon S3 storage. You also explore the tools available to monitor your Amazon S3 activity, storage, and performance trends.

• Course level: Advanced

• Duration: 1.5 hours

Activities

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

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Effectively use tagging in Amazon S3

• Monitor Amazon S3 API calls using S3 object-level an server access logging

• Use and interpret inventory reports

• Automate tasks using Amazon S3 notification events

• Conduct large-scale batch operations on Amazon S3 objects using S3 batch operations

• Monitor Amazon S3 storage and performance using Amazon CloudWatch

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• 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 Overview

• Completed Getting Started with AWS Storage

Course outline

Introduction

• Course introduction

• Introduction to managing Amazon S3 storageKeeping Track of Amazon S3 Activity with Object-Level and Server Access Logging

• Logging with Amazon S3 overview

• Using server access logging

• Using AWS CloudTrail

• Comparing server access logging to CloudTrail loggingUsing Tagging in Amazon S3

• Using tagging in Amazon S3Auditing Your Storage with Amazon S3 Inventory

• Using Amazon S3 inventoryWorking with Amazon S3 Event Notifications

• Introduction to Amazon S3 event notifications

• Using Amazon S3 event notificationsExecuting Complex Operations on Your S3 Objects with Batch Operations

• Introduction to Amazon S3 batch operations

• Using Amazon S3 batch operations

• Managing and tracking jobs

Monitoring Amazon S3 Storage and Performance using CloudWatch

• Overview of Amazon CloudWatch

• Amazon S3 metrics you can monitor with CloudWatch