Advanced Amazon S3

Question 1

For infrequently accessed object, move them to

Answer 1

Standard IA

Question 2

For archive objects that you don’t need fast access to, move them to

Answer 2

Glacier or Glacier Deep Archive

Question 3

Moving objects between different tiers can be automated using?

Answer 3

Lifecycle Rules

Question 4

What are Transition Actions?

Answer 4

configuring objects to transition to another storage class

Question 5

What are Expiration actions?

Answer 5

Configuring objects to expire (delete) after some time

Question 6

• Rules can be created for a certain …….
• Rules can be created for certain…..

Answer 6

prefix - (example: s3://mybucket/mp3/)

objectsTags - (example:Department:Finance)

Question 7

What does Storage Class Analysis do?

Answer 7

Helps decide when to transition objects to the right storage class

Question 8

What are S3 Event Notifications

Answer 8

Notifications received when certain events happen in your S3 bucket

Question 9

What 3 things does Amazon EventBridge offer?

Answer 9

offers:
- Advanced filtering options with JSON rules (metadata, object size, name…)

• Multiple Destinations – ex Step Functions, Kinesis Streams / Firehose…
• EventBridge Capabilities – Archive, Replay Events, Reliable delivery

Question 10

When should Multi-Part up load be used?

Answer 10

For files > 100MB, must use for files > 5GB

Question 11

How does S3 Transfer Acceleration work?

Answer 11

Increases transfer speed by transferring file to an AWS edge location which will forward the data to the S3 bucket in the target region

Question 12

What offers:
- Parallelize GETs by requesting specific byte ranges

• Better resilience in case of failures
• Can be used to retrieve only partial
  data (for example the head of a file)

Answer 12

S3 Byte-Range Fetches

Question 13

What offers:
- Retrieve less data using SQL by performing server-side filtering
- Can filter by rows & columns (simple SQL statements)
- Less network transfer, less CPU cost client-side

Answer 13

S3 Select & Glacier Select

Question 14

User-Defined Object Metadata can be retrieved while…

Answer 14

retrieving the object from the database

Question 15

S3 ObjectTags are useful what two things?

Answer 15

• fine-grained permissions
• for analytics purposes (using S3 Analytics to group by tags)

Question 16

You cannot….. the…… or……

Answer 16

search, object metadata, object tags

Question 17

How can you search the object metadata or object tags using an external DB?

Answer 17

Put all that metadata and all these tags into a searchable index

Question 18

What can be used to delete old versions of files (if versioning is enabled)?

Answer 18

Expiration Actions

Question 19

How many S3 event notifications can be created?

Answer 19

Can create as many “S3 events” as desired

Question 20

S3 event notifications typically deliver events in…… but can sometimes take a……..

Answer 20

seconds, minute or longer

Question 21

What can help parallelize uploads (speed up transfers)

Answer 21

Multi-Part up load

Question 22

Is S3 Transfer Acceleration compatibale with multi-part upload?

Answer 22

Yes

Question 23

What are S3 ObjectTags

Answer 23

Key-value pairs for objects in Amazon S3

Question 24

What are fine-grained permissions….?

Answer 24

only accessing specific objects with specific tags

Question 25

How do you use S3 ObjectTags for analytics purposes

Answer 25

Use S3 Analytics to group by tags

Question 26

What must you use to search the object metadata or object tags?

Answer 26

An external DB as a search index such as DynamoDB.

Question 27

What is returned from searching the object metadata or object tags using an external DB?

Answer 27

Results will be objects on Amazon S3.