AWS Storage Extras Flashcards
What FSx has seamless integration with S3, allowing you to “read” s3 as a file system and write the output of the computations back to S3?
Amazon FSx for Lustre
FSx File Deployment Option that allows high burst, temporary, non-replicated storage for short-term data processing
Scratch File System
FSx File Deployment option that allows for long-term storage where data is replacated within the same AZ. Good for long-term processing and sensitive data
Persistent File System
Amazon FSx that is compatible with NFS, SMB, iSCSI protocols - it also features the ability to do point-in-time instantaneous cloning
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Amazon FSx that is compatible with NFS (v3, v4, v4.1, v4.2) that offers 1,000,000 IOPS with < 0.5ms latency - it also features the ability to do point-in-time instantaneous cloning
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
This service serves as a bridge between cloud and on-premises data and must be installed in your on-premise data center
Storage Gateway
Storage Gateway type used to connect any S3 bucket (not Glacier) to the on-site file system
S3 File Gateway
Storage Gateway type that provides access to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server; it also acts as a local cache
Amazon FSx File Gateway
Storage Gateway type backed by EBS snapshots which can help restore on-premises volumes
Volume Gateway
Flavor of Storage Gateway that stores the full volume in its Amazon S3 service bucket, and just the recently accessed data is retained in the gateway’s local cache for low-latency access
Volume Gateway - Cached Volumes
Storage Gateway type where your entire data volume is available locally in the gateway for fast read access. It also maintains an asynchronous copy of your stored volume in the service’s Amazon S3 bucket
Volume Gateway - Stored volumes
Service used if you want to send data to/from S3 or EFS without using the S3 APIs or the EFS Network File System - you just want to use the FTP protocol
AWS Transfer Family
What are the three “flavors” of the AWS Transfer Family?
AWS Transfer for FTP
AWS Transfer for FTPS
AWS Transfer for SFTP
An online data transfer service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates copying large amounts of data between on-premises storage systems and AWS Storage services, as well as between AWS Storage services
AWS DataSync
You need to move hundreds of Terabytes into Amazon S3, then process the data using a fleet of EC2 instances. You have a 1 Gbit/s broadband. You would like to move the data faster and possibly processing it while in transit. What do you recommend?
Snowball Edge - Has computing capabilities and allows you to pre-process the data while its being moved into Snowball
You want to expose virtually infinite storage for your tape backups. You want to keep the same software you’re using and want an iSCSI compatible interface. What do you use?
AWS Storage Gateway - Tape Gateway
Your EC2 Windows Servers need to share some data by having a Network File System mounted on them which respects the Windows security mechanisms and has integration with Microsoft Active Directory. What do you recommend?
Amazon FSx for Windows (File Server)
You have hundreds of Terabytes that you want to migrate to AWS S3 as soon as possible. You tried to use your network bandwidth and it will take around 3 weeks to complete the upload process. What is the recommended approach to using in this situation?
AWS Snowball Edge
You have a large dataset stored in S3 that you want to access from on-premises servers using the NFS or SMB protocol. Also, you want to authenticate access to these files through on-premises Microsoft AD. What would you use?
AWS Storage Gateway - S3 File Gateway
You are planning to migrate your company’s infrastructure from on-premises to AWS Cloud. You have an on-premises Microsoft Windows File Server that you want to migrate. What is the most suitable AWS service you can use?
Amazon FSx for Windows (File Server)
You would like to have a distributed POSIX compliant file system that will allow you to maximize the IOPS in order to perform some High-Performance Computing (HPC) and genomics computational research. This file system has to easily scale to millions of IOPS. What do you recommend?
Amazon FSx for Lustre
Which deployment option in the FSx file system provides you with long-term storage that’s replicated within AZ?
Persistent File System
True/False: AWS Transfer Family supports the Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol?
No - it supports FTP, FTPS, and SFTP
A company uses a lot of files and data which is stored in an FSx for Windows File Server storage on AWS. Those files are currently used by the resources hosted on AWS. There’s a requirement for those files to be accessed on-premises with low latency. Which AWS service can help you achieve this?
FSx File Gateway - It creates a local cache of commonly used files
A Solutions Architect is working on planning the migration of a startup company from on-premises to AWS. Currently, their infrastructure consists of many servers and 30 TB of data hosted on a shared NFS storage. He has decided to use Amazon S3 to host the data. Which AWS service can efficiently migrate the data from on-premises to S3?
AWS DataSync
Which AWS service is best suited to migrate a large amount of data from an S3 bucket to an EFS file system?
AWS DataSync
A Machine Learning company is working on a set of datasets that are hosted on S3 buckets. The company decided to release those datasets to the public to be useful for others in their research, but they don’t want to configure the S3 bucket to be public. And those datasets should be exposed over the FTP protocol. What can they do to do the requirement efficiently and with the least effort?
Use AWS Transfer Family
Of these protocols, which is Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP not compatible with? NFS, SMB, FTP, or iSCSI
FTP
Which AWS service is best suited when migrating from an on-premises ZFS file system to AWS?
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
A company is running Amazon S3 File Gateway to host their data on S3 buckets and is able to mount them on-premises using SMB. The data currently is hosted on S3 Standard storage class and there is a requirement to reduce the costs for S3. So, they have decided to migrate some of those data to S3 Glacier. What is the most efficient way they can use to move the data to S3 Glacier automatically?
Use an S3 Lifecycle Policy
You have on-premises sensitive files and documents that you want to regularly synchronize to AWS to keep another copy. Which AWS service can help you with that?
AWS DataSync
High performance open-source file system designed for applications that require fast storage where you want your storage to keep up with your compute
Lustre
FSx type that provides the ability to both process ‘hot data’ in a parallel and distributed fashion as well as easily store ‘cold data’ on Amazon S3
FSx for Lustre
What is the storage capacity for a Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device?
80TB
What is the storage capacity for a Snowcone device?
8TB
Which two AWS storage services are compatible with AWS Transfer Family?
Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS
True/False: You can directly copy data from a Snowball Edge device into AWS Glacier
False - You must copy the data into an S3 bucket first, then use a Lifecycle Policy to transition the data into AWS Glacier
AWS recommends using Snowmobile to migrate large datasets of ______ or more in a single location
10 PB
AWS recommends snowball only if you want to transfer greater than _____ of data between your on-premises data centers and Amazon S3
10 TB
