Amazon

Question 1

What is Block Storage

Answer 1

Stores data as array of unrelated blocks
Stored on disk by host file system on storage array
Amazon EBS

Question 2

What is File Storage

Answer 2

Stores data in hierarchy of files and folders
Manager by operation systems (e.g. NTFS)
Amazon EFS

Question 3

What is Object Storage

Answer 3

Flat Storage System
Stores data as objects
Objects consist of data, metadata and identifiers
Amazon S3

Question 4

Whats are some common use cases for Amazon S3

Answer 4

Backup Storage for data
Media Hosting for videos and music
Application Assets - Storage for application data
Data Lake - Store ALL your data in once centralised area
Content Delivery - Host content / docs for customers

Question 5

What does Amazon EC2 stand for

Answer 5

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Question 6

What does Amazon S3 stand for

Answer 6

Amazon Simple Storage Service

Question 7

What does Amazon EBS stand for

Answer 7

Amazon Elastic Block Storage

Question 8

What does Amazon EBF stand for

Answer 8

Amazon Elastic File Storage