Using Open Data with Amazon S3

This lab demonstrates how to upload data to Amazon S3 and make it available for anyone to access via a web browser. You will learn how to create an Amazon S3 bucket, configure it to host a website, upload objects to it, and use JavaScript to display those objects on a web page. Along the way, you’ll learn some best practices for creating open data. At the end of this lab you will have deployed a simple web site that makes data easy to access and provides basic documentation of the data.

Level

Fundamental

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create an Amazon S3 bucket
• Upload objects to Amazon S3
• Create a Bucket Policy to set permissions on a bucket
• Create a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Configuration policy for a bucket
• Configure a bucket for static website hosting
• Use JavaScript to display the contents of a bucket on a static webpage

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• None

Course Outline

• Task 1: Create an Amazon S3 bucket
• Task 2: Upload files
• Task 3: Grant access to the bucket
• Task 4: Configure static website hosting
• Task 5: Enable Cross-Origin Resource Sharing