Lab 5 – AWS S3 Bucket

Learning Outcomes

• Create and configure an AWS S3 bucket.
• Upload and list objects from the console or CLI.
• Compare S3 to other object storage services.

Tasks

1. In the AWS console, open S3 and create a bucket (unique name, choose a region, block public access by default).
2. Upload a small text file (e.g., hello-cloud.txt) using the console.
3. Optional: using the AWS CLI, run:

   aws s3 ls
   aws s3 ls s3://YOUR-BUCKET-NAME

4. In your notes, briefly compare S3 to Google Cloud Storage and Linode Object Storage in terms of:
   • Common use cases
   • Durability
   • Typical pricing structure

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