This course introduces you to arguably the most widely used storage service within AWS, the Amazon Simple Storage Service, more commonly known as Amazon S3. You will learn about the characteristics of Amazon S3 and get a general overview of the service, before moving on and learning about the various storage classes it offers. Each storage class is different and this course explains how they can be used.
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Learning Objectives
The objectives of this course are to provide an overview of Amazon S3, including what the service is, the basics of the Amazon S3 console and its associated storage classes.
Intended Audience
This course is designed as an introduction to the Amazon S3 storage service and is suitable for those who are:
- Starting their AWS journey to understand the various services that exist and their use cases
- Storage engineers responsible for maintaining and storing data within an enterprise
- Anyone looking to begin their certification journey with either the AWS Cloud Practitioner or one of the three Associate-level certifications
Prerequisites
This is an entry-level course to AWS S3 and so no prior knowledge of this service is required. However, to get the most from this course, a basic understanding of Cloud Computing and awareness of AWS regional infrastructure would be beneficial but not essential.
Hello and welcome to this course which will introduce you to probably the most widely used storage service within AWS, the Amazon Simple Storage Service, more commonly known as Amazon S3. Before we start I would like to introduce myself. My name is Stuart Scott and I specialize in AWS Amazon Web Services. Feel free to connect with me with any questions using the details shown on the screen. Alternatively, you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an email to support@cloudacademy.com where one of our cloud experts will reply to your question.
This course is designed as an introduction to the Amazon S3 storage service and is suitable for those that are starting out their AWS journey to understand the various services that exist and their use case. Also, storage engineers that are responsible for maintaining and storing data within the enterprise and anyone looking to begin their certification journey with either the AWS Cloud Practitioner or any one of the three associate-level certifications.
The objectives of this course are to provide an overview of Amazon S3 including what the service is, the basics of the Amazon S3 console, and its associated storage classes. This is an entry-level course to S3 and so no prior knowledge of this service is required. However, a basic understanding of cloud computing and awareness of AWS regional infrastructure would be beneficial but not essential.
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Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data center and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.
To date, Stuart has created 150+ courses relating to Cloud reaching over 180,000 students, mostly within the AWS category and with a heavy focus on security and compliance.
Stuart is a member of the AWS Community Builders Program for his contributions towards AWS.
He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.
In January 2016 Stuart was awarded ‘Expert of the Year Award 2015’ from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.
Stuart enjoys writing about cloud technologies and you will find many of his articles within our blog pages.