S3

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) offers a highly scalable and secure object storage solution for various data needs, including:

1 . Text file

2 . Image

3 . Video

4 . Backups & more!

Task-01

Launch an EC2 instance using the AWS Management Console and connect to it using Secure Shell (SSH).

• Go to the AWS Management Console and navigate to EC2.

• Click on "Launch Instance" and follow the steps to launch a new EC2 instance. Choose an appropriate AMI, instance type, and configure security groups to allow SSH access.

• Once the instance is running, Open a terminal on your local machine.

Create an S3 bucket and upload a file to it using the AWS Management Console.

• Go to the S3 console in the AWS Management Console.

• Click on "Create bucket" and follow the prompts to create a new S3 bucket. Choose a unique name and the region where you want to create the bucket and rest of them keep default and click on create bucket.

• Once the bucket is created, click on it and then click on "Upload" to upload a file from your local machine to the bucket and click on upload.

Access the file from the EC2 instance using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

• On the EC2 instance terminal, install the AWS CLI if it's not already installed:

• Configure the AWS CLI with your access key ID and secret access key using aws configure as we did in the previous task. You can follow this Task to create a access key ID & secret access key Day-42.

sudo apt install curl -y
curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

aws configure && aws configure list

• Check the list of s3 and use the aws s3 cp command to copy the file from the S3 bucket to your EC2 instance:

aws s3 ls

aws s3 cp s3://<bucketname>/<content> /home/ubuntu

Task-02

Create a snapshot of the EC2 instance and use it to launch a new EC2 instance.

• Go to the EC2 dashboard and select the running instance and Click on "Actions" -> "Image and templates" -> "Create Image" to create a snapshot (AMI) of the instance.

• After that "create image" page will open there you have to create a image name, description and rest of them keep default and click on create image.

• Go to the AMIs section in the EC2 dashboard and select the snapshot you created and Click on "Launch instance for AMI" to launch a new EC2 instance from the snapshot.

• Follow the prompts to configure the instance details, such as instance type, AMI keep it as recent > recently created, security groups, and key pair and click on launch instance.

Download a file from the S3 bucket using the AWS CLI.

• Connect to the new EC2 instance using SSH.

• Install and configure the AWS CLI and configure as done previously with same Access key & Secret access key.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install awscli -y

aws configure

• Use the aws s3 cp command to download the file from the S3 bucket to the new EC2 instance as you did in the task1.

aws s3 cp s3://<bucketname>/<content> /home/ubuntu