AWS Storage

Question 1

what is S3

Answer 1

Simple Storage Service, is a bulk storage service. You can store any file in this, root folders you create in S3 are called Buckets

Question 2

Best Practise for S3 Buckets

Answer 2

Upload S3 Bucket in region closest to you or your customer to reduce latency

Question 3

How to create a S3 Bucket

Answer 3

Most be unique, select region, allow/deny public access and set storage class

Question 4

What are S3’s storage classes

Answer 4

Standard = Frequently used (99.99% availability and durability (9 nines), most expensive

Standard-IA = Long-lived, infrequently accessed data (3 AZ) (99.90 availability and durability 9 nines)

One Zone-IA = Long-lived, infrequently accessed (1 AZ), 20% less expensive to Standard-IA storage

Intelligent-Tiering = Long-lived data with changing patterns (99.99 durability and 99.5 availability)

Glacier = Archive data with retrieval times from minutes to hours

Glacier Deep Archive = 12hrs retrieval

Question 5

S3 Benefits and Features

Answer 5

1. Object sharing = make any object public via a URL Link
2. Object Lifecycles = Set rules to transfer objects between storage classes
   3, Object Versioning = Jeeos multiple versions of an object

• Durable, security, can run big data, integrates with almost all other AWS services

Question 6

What is Storage Gateway

Answer 6

Hybrid storage services

Question 7

What are the Storage Gateway Types

Answer 7

1. File Gateway

2. Volume Gateway = Stored volumes (stored in data center) or cached volumes (stored in AWS)