- Amazon S3
- S3 Use cases
- Amazon S3 Overview - Buckets
- Amazon S3 Overview - Objects
- S3 Security
- S3 Bucket Policies
- Bucket settings for Block Public Access
- S3 Websites
- S3 - Versioning
- S3 Access Logs
- S3 Replication (CRR & SRR)
- S3 Storage Classes
- S3 Object Lock & Glacier Vault Lock
- Shared Responsibility Model for S3
- AWS Snow Family
- What is Edge Computing?
- Snow Family - Edge Computing
- AWS OpsHub
- Hybrid Cloud for Storage
- AWS Storage Gateway
- Amazon S3 - Summary
- Backup and storage
- Disaster Recovery
- Archive
- Hybrid Cloud storage
- Application hosting
- Media hosting
- Data lakes & big data analytics
- Software delivery
- Static website
- Amazon S3 allows people to store objects (files) in “buckets” (directories)
- Buckets must have a globally unique name (across all regions all accounts)
- Buckets are defined at the region level
- S3 looks like a global service but buckets are created in a region
- Naming convention
- No uppercase
- No underscore
- 3-63 characters long
- Not an IP
- Must start with lowercase letter or number
- Objects (files) have a Key
- The key is the FULL path:
- s3://my-bucket/my_file.txt
- s3://my-bucket/my_folder1/another_folder/my_file.txt
- The key is composed of prefix + object name
- s3://my-bucket/my_folder1/another_folder/my_file.txt
- There’s no concept of “directories” within buckets (although the UI will trick you to think otherwise)
- Just keys with very long names that contain slashes (“/”)
- Object values are the content of the body:
- Max Object Size is 5TB (5000GB)
- If uploading more than 5GB, must use “multi-part upload”
- Metadata (list of text key / value pairs – system or user metadata)
- Tags (Unicode key / value pair – up to 10) – useful for security / lifecycle
- Version ID (if versioning is enabled)
- User based
- IAM policies - which API calls should be allowed for a specific user from IAM console
- Resource Based
- Bucket Policies - bucket wide rules from the S3 console - allows cross account
- Object Access Control List (ACL) – finer grain
- Bucket Access Control List (ACL) – less common
- Note: an IAM principal can access an S3 object if
- the user IAM permissions allow it OR the resource policy ALLOWS it
- AND there’s no explicit DENY
- Encryption: encrypt objects in Amazon S3 using encryption keys
- JSON based policies
- Resources: buckets and objects
- Actions: Set of API to Allow or Deny
- Effect: Allow / Deny Principal: The account or user to apply the policy to
- Use S3 bucket for policy to:
- Grant public access to the bucket
- Force objects to be encrypted at upload
- Grant access to another account (Cross Account)
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"sid": "PublicRead",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": "*",
"Action": [
"s3:GetObject"
],
"Resource": [
"arn:aws:s3::examplebucket/*"
]
}
]
}-
Block all public access: On
- Block public access to buckets and objects granted through new access control lists (ACLS): On
- Block public access to buckets and objects granted through any access control lists (ACLS): On
- Block public access to buckets and objects granted through new public bucket or access point policies: On
- Block public and cross-account access to buckets and objects through any public bucket or access point policies: On
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These settings were created to prevent company data leaks
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If you know your bucket should never be public, leave these on
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Can be set at the account level
- S3 can host static websites and have them accessible on the www
- The website URL will be:
- bucket-name.s3-website-AWS-region.amazonaws.com OR
- bucket-name.s3-website.AWS-region.amazonaws.com
- If you get a 403 (Forbidden) error, make sure the bucket policy allows public reads!
- You can version your files in Amazon S3
- It is enabled at the bucket level
- Same key overwrite will increment the “version”: 1, 2, 3….
- It is best practice to version your buckets
- Protect against unintended deletes (ability to restore a version)
- Easy roll back to previous version
- Notes:
- Any file that is not versioned prior to enabling versioning will have version “null”
- Suspending versioning does not delete the previous versions
- For audit purpose, you may want to log all access to S3 buckets
- Any request made to S3, from any account, authorized or denied, will be logged into another S3 bucket
- That data can be analyzed using data analysis tools…
- Very helpful to come down to the root cause of an issue, or audit usage, view suspicious patterns, etc…
- Must enable versioning in source and destination
- Cross Region Replication (CRR)
- Same Region Replication (SRR)
- Buckets can be in different accounts
- Copying is asynchronous
- Must give proper IAM permissions to S3
- CRR - Use cases: compliance, lower latency access, replication across accounts
- SRR – Use cases: log aggregation, live replication between production and test accounts
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Can move between classes manually or using S3 Lifecycle configurations
- Durability:
- High durability (99.999999999%, 11 9’s) of objects across multiple AZ
- If you store 10,000,000 objects with Amazon S3, you can on average expect to incur a loss of a single object once every 10,000 years
- Same for all storage classes
- Availability:
- Measures how readily available a service is
- Varies depending on storage class
- Example: S3 standard has 99.99% availability = not available 53 minutes a year
- 99.99% Availability
- Used for frequently accessed data
- Low latency and high throughput
- Sustain 2 concurrent facility failures
- Use Cases: Big Data analytics, mobile & gaming applications, content distribution…
- For data that is less frequently accessed, but requires rapid access when needed
- Lower cost than S3 Standard
- 99.9% Availability
- Use cases: Disaster Recovery, backups
- High durability (99.999999999%) in a single AZ; data lost when AZ is destroyed
- 99.5% Availability
- Use Cases: Storing secondary backup copies of on-premise data, or data you can recreate
- Low-cost object storage meant for archiving / backup
- Pricing: price for storage + object retrieval cost
- Millisecond retrieval, great for data accessed once a quarter
- Minimum storage duration of 90 days
- Expedited (1 to 5 minutes), Standard (3 to 5 hours), Bulk (5 to 12 hours) – free
- Minimum storage duration of 90 days
- Standard (12 hours), Bulk (48 hours)
- Minimum storage duration of 180 days
- Small monthly monitoring and auto-tiering fee
- Moves objects automatically between Access Tiers based on usage
- There are no retrieval charges in S3 Intelligent-Tiering
- Frequent Access tier (automatic): default tier
- Infrequent Access tier (automatic): objects not accessed for 30 days
- Archive Instant Access tier (automatic): objects not accessed for 90 days
- Archive Access tier (optional): configurable from 90 days to 700+ days
- Deep Archive Access tier (optional): config. from 180 days to 700+ days
- S3 Object Lock
- Adopt a WORM (Write Once Read Many) model
- Block an object version deletion for a specified amount of time
- Glacier Vault Lock
- Adopt a WORM (Write Once Read Many) model
- Lock the policy for future edits (can no longer be changed)
- Helpful for compliance and data retention
| AWS | YOU |
|---|---|
| Infrastructure (global security, durability, availability, sustain concurrent loss of data in two facilities) | S3 Versioning, S3 Bucket Policies, S3 Replication Setup |
| Configuration and vulnerability analysis | Logging and Monitoring, S3 Storage Classes |
| Compliance validation | Data encryption at rest and in transit |
- Highly-secure, portable devices to collect and process data at the edge, and migrate data into and out of AWS
- Data migration:
- Snowcone
- Snowball Edge
- Snowmobile
- Edge computing:
- Snowcone
- Snowball Edge
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AWS Snow Family: offline devices to perform data migrations If it takes more than a week to transfer over the network, use Snowball devices!
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Challenges:
- Limited connectivity
- Limited bandwidth
- High network cost
- Shared bandwidth (can’t maximize the line)
- Connection stability
| Data | 100 Mbps | 1Gbps | 10Gbps |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 TB | 12 days | 30 hours | 3 hours |
| 100 TB | 124 days | 12 days | 30 hours |
| 1 PB | 3 years | 124 days | 12 days |
- Physical data transport solution: move TBs or PBs of data in or out of AWS
- Alternative to moving data over the network (and paying network fees)
- Pay per data transfer job
- Provide block storage and Amazon S3-compatible object storage
- Snowball Edge Storage Optimized
- 80 TB of HDD capacity for block volume and S3 compatible object storage
- Snowball Edge Compute Optimized
- 42 TB of HDD capacity for block volume and S3 compatible object storage
- Use cases: large data cloud migrations, DC decommission, disaster recovery
- Small, portable computing, anywhere, rugged & secure, withstands harsh environments
- Light (4.5 pounds, 2.1 kg)
- Device used for edge computing, storage, and data transfer
- 8 TBs of usable storage
- Use Snowcone where Snowball does not fit (space-constrained environment)
- Must provide your own battery / cables
- Can be sent back to AWS offline, or connect it to internet and use AWS DataSync to send data
- Transfer exabytes of data (1 EB = 1,000 PB = 1,000,000 TBs)
- Each Snowmobile has 100 PB of capacity (use multiple in parallel)
- High security: temperature controlled, GPS, 24/7 video surveillance
- Better than Snowball if you transfer more than 10 PB
| Properties | Snowcone | Snowball Edge Storage Optimized | Snowmobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storage Capacity | 8 TB usable | 80 TB usable | < 100 PB |
| Migration Size | Up to 24 TB, online and offline | Up to petabytes, offline | Up to exabytes, offline |
- Request Snowball devices from the AWS console for delivery
- Install the snowball client / AWS OpsHub on your servers
- Connect the snowball to your servers and copy files using the client
- Ship back the device when you’re done (goes to the right AWS facility)
- Data will be loaded into an S3 bucket
- Snowball is completely wiped
- Process data while it’s being created on an edge location
- A truck on the road, a ship on the sea, a mining station underground...
- These locations may have
- Limited / no internet access
- Limited / no easy access to computing power
- We setup a Snowball Edge / Snowcone device to do edge computing
- Use cases of Edge Computing:
- Preprocess data
- Machine learning at the edge
- Transcoding media streams
- Eventually (if need be) we can ship back the device to AWS (for transferring data for example)
- Snowcone (smaller)
- 2 CPUs, 4 GB of memory, wired or wireless access
- USB-C power using a cord or the optional battery
- Snowball Edge – Compute Optimized
- 52 vCPUs, 208 GiB of RAM
- Optional GPU (useful for video processing or machine learning)
- 42 TB usable storage
- Snowball Edge – Storage Optimized
- Up to 40 vCPUs, 80 GiB of RAM
- Object storage clustering available
- All: Can run EC2 Instances & AWS Lambda functions (using AWS IoT Greengrass)
- Long-term deployment options: 1 and 3 years discounted pricing
- Historically, to use Snow Family devices, you needed a CLI (Command Line Interface tool)
- Today, you can use AWS OpsHub (a software you install on your computer / laptop) to manage your Snow Family Device
- Unlocking and configuring single or clustered devices
- Transferring files
- Launching and managing instances running on Snow Family Devices
- Monitor device metrics (storage capacity, active instances on your device)
- Launch compatible AWS services on your devices (ex: Amazon EC2 instances, AWS DataSync, Network File System (NFS))
- AWS is pushing for ”hybrid cloud”
- Part of your infrastructure is on-premises
- Part of your infrastructure is on the cloud
- This can be due to
- Long cloud migrations
- Security requirements
- Compliance requirements
- IT strategy
- S3 is a proprietary storage technology (unlike EFS / NFS), so how do you expose the S3 data on-premise?
- AWS Storage Gateway!
- Bridge between on-premise data and cloud data in S3
- Hybrid storage service to allow on- premises to seamlessly use the AWS Cloud
- Use cases: disaster recovery, backup & restore, tiered storage
- Types of Storage Gateway:
- File Gateway
- Volume Gateway
- Tape Gateway
- No need to know the types at the exam
- Buckets vs Objects: global unique name, tied to a region
- S3 security: IAM policy, S3 Bucket Policy (public access), S3 Encryption
- S3 Websites: host a static website on Amazon S3
- S3 Versioning: multiple versions for files, prevent accidental deletes
- S3 Access Logs: log requests made within your S3 bucket
- S3 Replication: same-region or cross-region, must enable versioning
- S3 Storage Classes: Standard, IA, 1Z-IA, Intelligent, Glacier, Glacier Deep Archive
- S3 Lifecycle Rules: transition objects between classes
- S3 Glacier Vault Lock / S3 Object Lock: WORM (Write Once Read Many)
- Snow Family: import data onto S3 through a physical device, edge computing
- OpsHub: desktop application to manage Snow Family devices
- Storage Gateway: hybrid solution to extend on-premises storage to S3
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