AWS MasterClass: Storage & CDN - AWS S3 & AWS CloudFront

Identify AWS storage services such as S3, EBS, EFS, and Glacier, and their use cases. Evaluate the right storage option for your workload and learn how CloudFront delivers data efficiently.

Explore the AWS storage landscape, including S3, Elastic File System, Glacier, CloudFront, and Elastic Block Storage, and understand how these data storage and content delivery options meet varied application needs.

Amazon S3 delivers scalable object storage in the cloud, grouping files into buckets and returning a URL for access, without traditional file system semantics or preprovisioning.

Learn how EBS provides raw block storage to EC2 with pre-provisioned disk sizes and manual detaching, resizing, and reattaching, unlike S3's lack of granular storage semantics.

Learn how AWS Glacier provides low-cost archival storage for infrequently read data, ideal for compliance archives and disaster recovery, with slower reads and pay-per-read pricing compared to S3 standard.

Explore elastic file system, a scalable, fully managed shared storage that lets multiple EC2 instances concurrently read and write to a common data store, balancing performance and cost.

Explore AWS CloudFront as a content delivery network that caches and serves data from global edge locations, integrates with S3, and optimizes performance with monitoring and tailored architectures.

Learn to use AWS S3 as a highly scalable, durable object storage service, create buckets, and host a static website from S3, with a practical demonstration.

Create and configure an AWS S3 bucket to host a static website, upload HTML, CSS, and JavaScript assets, and set a default index page in a nearby region.

Configure a new AWS S3 bucket to host a public static website by uploading files, enabling website hosting, and setting index.html as the entry point.

Configure an S3 bucket, obtain its endpoint, and host a static website. Map a custom domain with Route 53, manage objects and permissions, and scale storage without provisioning.

Learn how AWS EBS provides block storage for EC2 instances by pre-provisioning storage, and how it differs from S3's scalability while supporting file system semantics for databases.

Log into the AWS management console in the correct region, launch an Ubuntu EC2 instance, attach an EBS volume, format it as ext4, and enable boot-time mounting for persistence.

Log in to an EC2 instance, identify and format a new EBS volume, mount it at /data, and configure automatic mounting at boot using the partition's UUID in /etc/fstab.

Master configuring Linux storage with the fstab command, detailing partition labels, mount points, filesystem types, default and nofail options, and dump and fsck values to enable persistent storage.

Learn to use Amazon CloudFront, the content delivery network. Set up a CloudFront distribution backed by an S3 bucket to deliver content globally and efficiently.

Create a CloudFront distribution to deliver S3 content worldwide from edge locations, choosing web-based or streaming distribution, and configure origin domain name to map your bucket.

Configure a CloudFront distribution to serve a subset of an S3 bucket using an origin path, manage caching with cache-control headers, etag, ttl, and content-type, and enforce https.

Configure CloudFront distribution settings such as automatic compression, price class, ACL, alternate domain names, SSL certificates, IPv6, and logging to a bucket.

Finalize the AWS CloudFront distribution by deploying from the S3 bucket and understand global replication, latency, and the benefit of reduced bandwidth costs for worldwide delivery.

Validate your CloudFront distribution by tracing requests with dig and grisoft commands, and confirm the S3-backed setup for faster global content delivery.

Create an s3 bucket, upload a file, set public permissions, and deploy a CloudFront distribution to deliver content globally from the nearest location using a domain name.

Launch two EC2 instances in Sydney and Ireland. Use dig and traceroute to verify CloudFront serves content from different geographic regions.

Learn to validate an AWS CloudFront setup by logging into regional EC2 instances and verifying DNS mappings with dig. Inspect trace routes to confirm optimized delivery via CloudFront.

Explore cloud computing basics with AWS, including virtualization and on-demand resources, and learn how scalable, cost-efficient infrastructure enables organizations to move away from in-house setups.

Explore AWS cloud benefits across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, highlighting agility, rapid deployment, scalable resources, robust security and compliance, and cost efficiency through pay-as-you-go services.

Explore how startups and enterprises deploy AWS to accelerate development, analytics, and mobile services, using hybrid cloud and data tools to reduce costs and speed time to market.

Explore how AWS provides enterprise services—from virtual desktops and collaboration tools to analytics, app services, and security—built on compute, storage, and CDN, across a global, compliant infrastructure.

Understand AWS compute, storage, databases, and networking services, from general purpose and compute-optimized instances with auto scaling and load balancing to S3 storage, Aurora databases, CloudFront CDN, and IAM security.

Discover AWS cloud platform capabilities, including storage and sharing, secure work mail, desktop in the cloud, browser streaming, IoT and Greengrass, and the Lumberyard game engine.

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