CLOUD COMPUTING LAB UE20CS351

Experiment 2: - Introduction to AWS S3 (Simple Storage

Service) and Hosting a Static Website Using Amazon Simple
Storage Service
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In this lab, you will learn :

● Create a bucket in Amazon S3

● Upload content to a bucket
● Manage access permissions on an object and a bucket
● Create a bucket policy
● Use bucket versioning
● Update a static website

Introduction to AWS Educate:

AWS Educate is an online platform built by Amazon that enables users to learn AWS by
providing access to online training resources and labs to learn, practice, and evaluate cloud
skills without having to create an Amazon or AWS account. In this course, we will be working
with AWS Educate, which familiarizes you with AWS.

Setting up an AWS Educate account :

1. Click here to go to AWS Educate.

2. Click on “Register Now”
3. Provide your SRN as the First Name and your name as the last name while filling in the
required details to register.
4. Verify the given email address to complete the registration.
5. Set a password for the AWS Educate account
6. Login into your account and choose the course “Getting Started With Storage(Lab)”
Your Page should look like this once the above steps are completed:

What is AWS S3?

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, web-based cloud
storage service. The service is designed for online backup and archiving of data and
applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon S3 was designed with a minimal feature
set and created to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Some essential features of S3 are

● Create Buckets: First, we create a bucket and provide a name to the bucket. Buckets
are the containers in S3 that store the data.
● Storing data in buckets: The bucket can be used to store an infinite amount of data.
You can upload files as you want into an Amazon S3 bucket, i.e., there is no maximum
limit to store the files. Each object can contain up to 5 TB of data. Each object can be
stored and retrieved by using a unique developer-assigned key.
● Permissions: You can grant or deny access to others who want to download or upload
the data from your Amazon S3 bucket. The authentication mechanism keeps the data
secure from unauthorized access.
● Security: Amazon S3 offers security features that protect unauthorized users from
accessing your data.
● Standard interfaces: S3 is used with the standard interfaces REST and SOAP
interfaces which are designed in such a way that they can work with any development
toolkit.
S3 is object-based. Objects consist of the following:

● Key: It is simply the name of the object. For example, [Link], [Link], etc.
You can use the key to retrieve the object.
● Value: It is simply the data which is made up of a sequence of bytes. It is actually data
inside the file.
● Version ID: Version ID uniquely identifies the object. It is a string generated by S3 when
you add an object to the S3 bucket.
● Metadata: It is the data about data that you are storing. A set of a name-value pair with
which you can store the information regarding an object. Metadata can be assigned to
the objects in the Amazon S3 bucket.
● Subresources: The subresource mechanism is used to store object-specific
information.
● Access control information: You can put the permissions individually on your files.

Submission Guidelines:

1. Make sure the account name(containing SRN) on the top right is visible in the
screenshots submitted (Shown in the below screenshot)
2. The screenshots must be taken in the same manner as depicted in the samples.
3. Make sure the name of the bucket in Lab 1 is reportbucketSRN (Eg.
reportbucketPES1UG21CSXXX) and website-123
4. Ensure that the change in [Link] file replaces the text “Served From Amazon S3” to
“Created By YOUR_NAME YOUR_SRN”
5. The screenshots must be pasted into a Word document and sent in PDF format. The file
should be named in this manner <Section>_<SRN>_<Name>_A3.pdf ( Eg.
A_PES1UG20CSXXX_Name_E2.pdf )
Deliverables:

Screenshots of the below listed will be taken for submission. Please follow the
same numerical order while submitting your screenshots.

1. Bucket Creation

2. 403 Forbidden Error page for clicking the website link

3. Uploading the contents to the bucket

4. Static website before modifying [Link] file

5. Pasting the Pre-signed link

 6. Static website after modifying [Link] file

Points to note:
1. AWS Educate will create a temporary AWS account with all the required permissions and
access to complete the lab. Do not use your personal AWS account. To prevent conflicts with
any AWS account that you have already signed into on your browser, use incognito mode.

2. DO NOT change the default region/ VPC or any other settings that are automatically created
by AWS Educate.
3. The AWS Educate lab session is timed. When the time limit is reached/the timer expires, the
AWS account is deleted, and you must restart the lab from the beginning.
4. All code and configuration for the AWS Educate lab have already been given. You are not
required to code anything from scratch or deviate from this for the lab experiments. However, in
some cases, you may be required to name the resources you use differently, as instructed.
5. The assignments may require you to deviate from the AWS Educate instructions and use
your own code. Instructions will be given.
6. DO NOT try to access or avail any other resources and services that have not been
described in the lab session or your account will be blocked.
7. Ensure that you have signed into AWS Educate from your mail account.