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Storage on AWS
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Storage services on AWS


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### Storage on AWS
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- Object 
    - S3 | internet accessible object storage with unlimiled capacity | Pay for what you use
        - 99.999999999% durability
        - Storage classes
            - Standard
            - IA
            - Intelligent Tiering
            - One Zone-IA
            - Glacier
        - Lifecycle policies
        - Versioning
        - Access control
            - Block public access (bucket settings)
            - Bucket ACL
            - Bucket Policies
            - IAM Policies
        - Replication
            - SRR
            - CRR
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#### [What is S3?](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/)
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![Screenshot 2025-12-20 at 13.56.41](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rJN2omVQZx.png)

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#### [S3 Storage Classes](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes-infographic/)
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![Screenshot 2025-12-20 at 13.57.18](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/B1ZRomNQWe.png)



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- Block (C:\, D:\ ) | attach the volume
    - Instance Store | Ephemeral Block Storage | DAS | Complimentry
    - EBS | Persistent Block Storage | SAN | Pay for what you provision
        - SSD Based
            - Provisioned IOPS
            - General Purpose
        - HDD Based
            - Throughput optimized
            - Cold HDD
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#### [EBS Volume Types](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-volume-types.html)
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![EBS-SSD](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H11e_74Q-e.png)

![EBS-HDD](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SyOMd7NXZx.png)

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- File/Network (Shared drive) | NAS | Mount the file system | Pay for what you use
    - EFS | Linux workloads | NFS 4.0 and 4.1
    - FSx | Windows workloads | SMB, CIFS, NTFS

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#### Class Activity 1: EBS Volumes - basic operations
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You are tasked with setting up basic compute and storage resources in AWS.

As part of this activity, you will:
	•	Launch an Amazon EC2 instance
	•	Create an Amazon EBS volume
	•	Attach the EBS volume to the EC2 instance
	•	Verify that the volume is successfully attached
	•	Clean up all resources to avoid unnecessary costs

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### Assignment 1: EBS Snapshots
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**Problem Statement**

An operations team wants to create a backup of critical data stored on an EC2 instance and be able to restore it if needed.

**Your Task:**

You are required to:
	1.	Launch an EC2 instance
	2.	Create and attach an EBS volume
	3.	Format and mount the volume
	4.	Create a sample file on the mounted volume
	5.	Create a snapshot of the EBS volume
	6.	Delete the original EBS volume
	7.	Create a new EBS volume from the snapshot
	8.	Attach the restored volume to the EC2 instance
	9.	Verify that the original data is still available
	10.	Clean up all AWS resources

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### Assignment 2: Complete the following practices from Simplilearn
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Lesson 04 - Demo 01 | Creating an S3 Bucket
Lesson 04 - Demo 02 | Configuring S3 Bucket Version
Lesson 04 - Demo 03 | Configuring S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive
Lesson 04 - Demo 04 | Configuring Age-Based Retention
Lesson 04 - Demo 05 | Implementing Object Replication Between S3 Buckets
Lesson 04 - Demo 06 | Demonstrating Server-Side Encryption Using S3 and KMS
Lesson 04 - Demo 07 | Creating and Mounting EFS on a Linux Server
Lesson 04 - Demo 08 | Creating and Deleting Keys with Amazon KMS

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### Assignment 3: Complete the following AWS workshops
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- [Storage - Amazon S3 & EFS](https://catalog.workshops.aws/general-immersionday/en-US/basic-modules/60-s3)

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