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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate SAA-C03 · Domain 1: Design Secure Architectures

S3 data protection: Block Public Access, bucket policies, presigned URLs, versioning, MFA Delete and Object Lock modes

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Amazon S3 holds a large share of the world's cloud data, and misconfigured buckets are a well-known cause of breaches. S3 gives you layers of protection against two different threats: exposure, meaning the wrong people reading data, and loss, meaning data being deleted or overwritten by mistake, by a bug or by ransomware. The exam asks you to pick the right control for each threat, so it helps to sort every feature into one of those two groups.

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