Week 4 Worklog

Week 4 Objectives:

  • Deep dive into EC2 advanced features (Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, EBS).
  • Create Amazon S3 storage bucket and configure Static Website Hosting.
  • Integrate CloudFront CDN and establish AWS Storage Gateway File Shares.

Tasks to be carried out this week:

DayTaskStart DateCompletion DateReference Material
2Study EC2 features: EBS volume types, instance sizing, ELB, and Auto Scaling scaling policies.05/11/202605/11/2026https://000006.awsstudygroup.com/
3Write an automated CloudFormation template to deploy an S3 Bucket and EC2 instance environment.05/12/202605/12/2026https://000037.awsstudygroup.com/
4Deploy AWS Storage Gateway on EC2 to configure File Shares mapped directly to an S3 bucket.05/13/202605/13/2026https://000024.awsstudygroup.com/
5Configure Static Website Hosting on S3 and distribute content through Amazon CloudFront CDN.05/14/202605/14/2026https://000057.awsstudygroup.com/
6Verify website availability via CloudFront URL, check cache behaviors, and ensure SSL/HTTPS delivery.05/15/202605/15/2026https://000094.awsstudygroup.com/

Week 4 Achievements:

  • Mastered provisioning S3 and EC2 components using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation).
  • Hosted a responsive static web application on S3, distributed globally via CloudFront with low latency.
  • Bridged system storage to the cloud via AWS Storage Gateway File Shares.