AWS Storage Extras

Question 1

What is the AWS Snow Family? And what are the two types of services offered?

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Question 2

Why would you choose to do data migration with the AWS Snow Family?

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Question 3

How would you update data to S3 using the AWS Snow Family?

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Question 4

What is the “Snowball Edge” in the AWS Snow Family?

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Question 5

What is the “Snowcone & Snowcone SSD” in the AWS Snow Family?

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Question 6

What is the “Snowmobile” in the AWS Snow Family?

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Question 7

What do the comparisons look like of the AWS Snow Family options?

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Question 8

How do you use a AWS Snow Family device?

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Question 9

What is Edge Computing in relation to the AWS Snow Family?

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Question 10

What are the options in the AWS Snow Family related to Edge Computing?

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Question 11

What is AWS OpsHub and how is it used in relation to the AWS Snow Family?

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Question 12

How could you import a large amount of data from on-premises into S3 Glacier?

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Question 13

What is Amazon FSx?

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Question 14

What is Amazon FSx for Windows (File Server)?

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Question 15

Can Amazon FSx for Windows (File Server) be mounted onto a Linux EC2 instance?

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Yes

Question 16

What is Amazon FSx for Lustre?

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Question 17

How does Amazon FSx for Lustre integrate with S3?

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Question 18

What are the FSx Lustre file system deployment options?

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Question 19

What is Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP?

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Question 20

When you are testing your workloads and need to clone your data quickly from a file system compatible with NFS, SMB or iSCSI, running on ONTAP, NAS or ZFS file systems, what Amazon FSx option would you choose?

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Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (ONTAP, NAS) or Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

They perform point-in-time instantaneous cloning (helpful for testing new workloads)

Question 21

What is Amazon FSx for OpenZFS?

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Question 22

How do you expose the S3 data on-premises?

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AWS Storage Gateway

Question 23

What are the storage cloud-native options in AWS?

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Question 24

What is the AWS Storage Gateway?

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Question 25

What is the Amazon S3 File Storage Gateway?

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Question 26

What is the Amazon FSx File Storage Gateway?

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Question 27

If you can already connect to Amazon FSx from on-premises, why would you want to use Amazon FSx File Storage Gateway?

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It has a local cache for frequently accessed data

Question 28

What is the Amazon Volume Storage Gateway?

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Question 29

What is the Amazon Tape Storage Gateway?

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Question 30

If you don't have virtual machines on-premises to run the Storage Gateway software, what is another option?

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Question 31

AWS Storage Gateway Architecture Options

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Question 32

What is the AWS Transfer Family?

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Question 33

What does a standard configuration for the AWS Transfer Family look like?

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Question 34

What is AWS DataSync?

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Question 35

If you have a large amount of data that you need transferred from on-premises to AWS and you want to keep the file permissions in tact, what service would you use?

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AWS DataSync

Question 36

What does the standard configuration for using AWS DataSync look like?

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Question 37

What if you want to use DataSync but you don't have the network capacity to run the DataSync agent in your data center? What is another option?

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Run AWS Snowcone on-premises because it comes with the AWS DataSync agent. Collect the data and send it back to AWS.

Question 38

How can you use AWS DataSync to transfer data between AWS storage services?

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Question 39

What would be the key reason to transfer data between AWS storage services using AWS DataSync?

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To keep the metadata for the files (e.g. file permissions)

Question 40

Comparison of all storage options in AWS

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