Creating S3 buckets in AWS - Try It Yourself

Creating S3 buckets

📖 Scenario: You are working as a cloud assistant helping a small business set up storage for their files. They want to create Amazon S3 buckets to keep their data safe and organized.

🎯 Goal: Build a simple AWS CloudFormation template that creates two S3 buckets with specific names and settings.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create an AWS CloudFormation template in YAML format.

Define two S3 buckets with exact names: mycompany-logs and mycompany-data.

Set the VersioningConfiguration to Enabled for the mycompany-data bucket only.

Add a BucketName property for each bucket with the exact names.

Use best practices for bucket creation in CloudFormation.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

CloudFormation templates are used to automate and standardize cloud resource creation, saving time and reducing errors.

💼 Career

Knowing how to create and configure S3 buckets with CloudFormation is a key skill for cloud engineers and DevOps professionals.

1

Create the basic CloudFormation template structure

Start by creating a CloudFormation template with the root keys AWSTemplateFormatVersion set to '2010-09-09' and an empty Resources section.

AWS

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Resources:
  # Your code here

Need a hint?

This is the basic skeleton of a CloudFormation template. The Resources section will hold your bucket definitions.

2

Add the first S3 bucket resource

Inside the Resources section, add a resource named LogsBucket of type AWS::S3::Bucket with a BucketName property set to mycompany-logs.

AWS

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Resources:
  LogsBucket:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
    # Your code here

Need a hint?

Remember to indent properly under LogsBucket and add the Properties section before BucketName.

3

Add the second S3 bucket with versioning enabled

Add another resource named DataBucket of type AWS::S3::Bucket with BucketName set to mycompany-data and enable versioning by adding VersioningConfiguration with Status set to Enabled.

AWS

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Resources:
  LogsBucket:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
    Properties:
      BucketName: mycompany-logs
  DataBucket:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
    # Your code here

Need a hint?

Versioning helps keep multiple versions of files. Make sure to nest Status: Enabled under VersioningConfiguration.

4

Complete the CloudFormation template

Ensure the template is valid YAML with correct indentation and no extra properties. The template should define exactly two S3 buckets named mycompany-logs and mycompany-data with versioning enabled only on mycompany-data.

AWS

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Resources:
  LogsBucket:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
    Properties:
      BucketName: mycompany-logs
  DataBucket:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
    Properties:
      BucketName: mycompany-data
      VersioningConfiguration:
        Status: Enabled
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Review your indentation and property names carefully. The template should be ready to deploy.