S3

Question 1

What is S3 Intelligent Tiering?

Answer 1

It is the only tiering level that provides coast savings when data access patterns change without performance impact. A small monitoring fee is added to do this.

Question 2

What is S3 Standard IA?

Answer 2

“I” stands for infrequent data access, but requires rapid access when needed.

Question 3

What is S3 One Zone IA?

Answer 3

“I” stands for infrequent and does not require multiple zones data resilience model.

Question 4

What is S3 Standard?

Answer 4

The default storage class. S3 Standard offers high durability, availability, and performance object storage for frequently accessed data.

Question 5

What are S3 object locks?

Answer 5

You configure this when you create the bucket. Once enabled, versioning will be enabled by default too. I believe that you configure object locking by setting the retention at the bucket. Having said that, object locking is configurable at the object version level

Question 6

What 2 types of object retention are there when using object locks?

Answer 6

Retention period - you set the time
Legal hold- forever.
you would have to delete the aws account to get passed these settings.

Question 7

What classes are used when archiving data is needed.

Answer 7

S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Question 8

What type of retrieval options do you have when using S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Answer 8

Expedited, Standard, and Bulk. However, Expedited is not an option when using S3 Glacier Deep Archive.