AWS Storage Services (CLF-C02)

Welcome to the AWS Storage Services practice lab. In this module, you will be provided with the instructions and devices needed to develop your hands-on skills.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) are two key storage services offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). EBS provides block-level storage volumes attached to Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, and S3 offers object storage with virtually unlimited scalability.

In this module, you will explore the AWS Storage Services, EBS, and S3.

Overview

Learning Outcomes

In this module, you will complete the following exercises:

  • Exercise 1 – Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  • Exercise 2 – Simple Storage Service (S3)

After completing this module, you should be able to:

  • Create a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
  • Create an EC2 instance.
  • Add an EBS volume to an EC2 instance
  • Discover storage class documentation.
  • Create an S3 bucket.
  • Create an S3 lifecycle rule.

Exam Objectives

The following exam objectives are covered in this module:

3.6 Identify AWS Storage Services

  • Skills – Identifying the uses for object storage
  • Skills – Recognizing the differences in Amazon S3 storage classes
  • Skills – Identifying block storage solutions (for example, Amazon EBS, instance store)
  • Skills – Understanding use cases for lifecycle policies