Simulating Recovery of Deleted Files in S3 Using Versioning

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Simulating Recovery of Deleted Files in S3 Using Versioning

In this hands-on lab you have been asked to implement an architecture to help accidental or purposeful deletion of important company files stored in Amazon S3. During your time you will: Explore deletion protection options for your Amazon S3 bucket, enable versioning for all files within the S3 bucket, and test deletion and recovery of test files.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 23, 2025

Duration

15m

Challenge

Create Test Files
- Invoke the CreateTestFiles Amazon API Gateway API to create test files in the Amazon S3 bucket
- You should get several files/objects created similar to important_file_###.txt
You can get the invoke URL in the API Gateway console from the Stages menu of the MyApi resource or the CloudFormation outputs
Challenge

Delete Objects - Part 1
- Delete one or more of the important files within the Amazon S3 bucket created for you. The bucket name should start with csaa-ps-.
- Do not delete all objects
Challenge

Enable Versioning for Amazon S3 Bucket
- Enable bucket versioning for the Amazon S3 bucket from within the bucket properties
Challenge

Delete Objects - Part 2
- Select and delete another object within the Amazon S3 bucket.
Make note of the object key/name.
Challenge

Recover Deleted Object
- Show the object versions for the Amazon S3 bucket using the toggle button
- Recover the previously deleted object by permanently deleting the deletion marker for your recently removed object

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