This section of the SysOps Administrator - Associate learning path introduces you to the core storage concepts and services relevant to the SOA-C02 exam. We start with an introduction to the AWS storage services, understand the options available, and learn how to select and apply AWS storage services to meet specific requirements.
Learning Objectives
- Obtain an in-depth understanding of Amazon S3 management and security features
- Get both a theoretical and practical understanding of EFS
- Learn how to create an EFS file system, manage EFS security, and import data in EFS
- Learn about EC2 storage and Elastic Block Store
Hello and welcome to this short lecture which looks at an advanced property of an S3 bucket, Requester Pays.
As the name implies, when this feature is configured any costs associated with requests and data transfer becomes the responsibility of the requester instead of the bucket owner. The bucket owner will still, however, pay for the storage costs associated with the objects stored in the bucket.
A fundamental condition of enabling requester pays is ensuring that all access is authenticated to your bucket, as anonymous access requests will not be able to take advantage of the requester pays attribute. This is because AWS would not know which account to charge the request and data download to. By authenticating requests, it allows a trace back to the identity and to which AWS account that identity is originating from, and the cost is then transferred to that account.
To enable requester pays is very simply, select the ‘Requester Pays’ tile from the properties of the required bucket. The options available are either to enable requester pays or disable requester pays. Once your decision has been made, select Save. From this point, any POST, GET or HEAD requests to the bucket must include x-amz-request-payer in the header and this parameter confirms that the requester is aware that there are cost implications associated with that request for requester pays.
Lectures
Introduction - Versioning - Server-Access Logging - Static Website Hosting - Object-Level Logging - Default Encryption - Object Lock - Tags - Transfer Acceleration - Events - Summary
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