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Amazon Storage Solution

Amazon offers a range of cloud storage solutions to meet different needs of customers. The below picture illustrates the various storage solutions for different needs of both cloud based and on-premise customers.

 

Amazon S3

  • Simple Storage Solution; Stores data as objects.

  • To use S3, one need to create buckets in S3 and store data in buckets. Can create any number of buckets.

  • Objects in a bucket can have life cycle policies set.

  • Data encryption options available.

  • Buckets need to have IAM policies attached to it in order to create, update or delete objects in it.

  • Instances can connect to S3 through VPC end point.

  • Provides many flavours and charges vary.

  • S3 Standard

  • S3 IA

  • S3 Reduced Redundancy

 

Amazon S3 Glacier


Storage solution for infrequently accessed data or cold data or data archival.

You need to create a vault in Glacier to upload archival data

You can upload or download or delete data from and to archive vault.

Data retrieval time between 3 - 5 hours

There is no retrieval limit

 

Amazon Storage Gateway

  • Storage Gateway is a service that connects On-premise applications with cloud based storage.

  • Provides secure and seamless integration.

  • Provides three flavours of storage solutions.

  • File based – supports interface with S3;

  • Volume based - provides cloud backed storage system as Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI); and

  • Tape based - provides cloud backed virtual tape storage for GLACIER archive or deep archive.

Below diagram shows how a Storage gateway helps in trasfering data from On-premise to AWS cloud.

 

Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

  • EBS (Elastic block storage) are volumes similar to external hard drives for instances.

  • You can mount multiple EBS volumes to an Instance but one EBS volume cannot be attached to more than one instance at a time.

  • EBS volumes are persistent and are available even if the instance is killed.

  • You can back up EBS volumes by taking point-in-time snap shots.

 

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

  • EFS (Elastic File System) is similar to NFS (Network File System) of shared folder for file storage on the cloud.

  • EFS is simple, scalable and elastic.

  • Multiple instances can access EFS at the same time.

  • No minimum charge. Pay as per the storage used.

  • Two Types of storage

  • Standard – for frequently accessed files

  • IA – for infrequently accessed files.

 

Amazon FSx

  • Fully managed 3rd party file system.

  • Primarily used for Windows based storage, high performance computing, ML and design automation.

  • Supports two file systems

  • Windows file server

  • Lustre

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