AWS Storage Extras Flashcards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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How do you use a AWS Snow Family device?

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9
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What is Edge Computing in relation to the AWS Snow Family?

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10
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What are the options in the AWS Snow Family related to Edge Computing?

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

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

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What is Amazon FSx?

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What is Amazon FSx for Windows (File Server)?

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

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Yes

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16
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What is Amazon FSx for Lustre?

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17
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How does Amazon FSx for Lustre integrate with S3?

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18
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What are the FSx Lustre file system deployment options?

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19
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What is Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP?

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20
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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)

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What is Amazon FSx for OpenZFS?

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22
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How do you expose the S3 data on-premises?

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AWS Storage Gateway

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What are the storage cloud-native options in AWS?

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24
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What is the AWS Storage Gateway?

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25
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What is the Amazon S3 File Storage Gateway?

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26
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What is the Amazon FSx File Storage Gateway?

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27
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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

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What is the Amazon Volume Storage Gateway?

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29
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What is the Amazon Tape Storage Gateway?

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30
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If you don’t have virtual machines on-premises to run the Storage Gateway software, what is another option?

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31
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AWS Storage Gateway Architecture Options

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32
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What is the AWS Transfer Family?

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33
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What does a standard configuration for the AWS Transfer Family look like?

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34
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What is AWS DataSync?

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35
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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

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

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37
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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.

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

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39
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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)

40
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Comparison of all storage options in AWS

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