Simple Storage Service - Basics

In this course, you will gain a foundational understanding of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You will explore the benefits of Amazon S3 over traditional storage systems, review common use cases, and troubleshoot Amazon S3 issues. Course provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS).Amazon S3 is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means that customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases. Examples include websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and big data analytics.

• Course level: Fundamental
• Duration: 10 minutes

Activities

This digital course includes presentations and assessments.

Course objectives

In this course, you will:

• Describe the benefits of Amazon S3 versus a traditional storage system
• Explain how customers use Amazon S3
• Recognize and troubleshoot common Amazon S3 issues

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Cloud professionals
• Software developers
• Storage engineers
• DevOps administrators
• IT administrators
• Partners enrolled in Partner-Led Support
• AWS customers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (recommended)

Course outline

• Benefits of using Amazon S3
• Common Amazon S3 use cases
• Amazon S3 service-level agreement
• Eventual consistency