AWS Storage Extras

Question 1

What is the AWS Snow family?

Answer 1

Highly securely, portable devices to collect and process data at the edge and migrate data in and out of AWS

Question 2

What are the 2 main Snow devices?

Answer 2

Snowcone and Snowball Edge

Question 3

What is the difference between Snowcone and Snowball Edge?

Answer 3

Snowcone is for smaller data movement up to TB, Snowball Edge is for up to petabyte data movement

Question 4

What is a rough rule of thumb as to when you should consider using one of the snow family of products to move data?

Answer 4

If it takes more than a week to migrate

Question 5

What is the idea of edge computing?

Answer 5

You can process data whilst it’s being created at an edge location, e.g. on a truck, ship or underground

Question 6

Can Snowball import data directly into Glacier?

Answer 6

No, you have to import to S3 and then set up a lifecycle policy that will move the data into Glacier

Question 7

When would you use FSx for Windows?

Answer 7

For integration with Microsoft Active Directory

Question 8

When would you use FSx for Lustre?

Answer 8

Distributed file system for a high performance computing cluster

Question 9

When would you use FSx for NetApp ONTAP?

Answer 9

Moving ONTAP workloads to AWS

Question 10

When would you use FSx for OpenZFS?

Answer 10

Managed OpenZFS file system - moving ZFS workloads to the cloud

Question 11

Can FSx for Windows be run on linux EC2 instances?

Answer 11

Yes!

Question 12

Does FSx for Windows support multi-AZ?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

Does FSx for Lustre support multi-AZ?

Answer 13

No

Question 14

What are the 2 types of FSx file system deployment? What is the difference?

Answer 14

Scratch file system and persistent file system.
Scratch is temporary storage that is lost if the server fails.
Persistent is long-term storage that can withstand failures through data replications in the same AZ.

Question 14

What is AWS Storage Gateway?

Answer 14

A bridge between S3 and on-premises storage to allow for S3 data to be exposed on-premises

Question 15

What are the 4 types of storage gateway?

Answer 15

• Tape gateway
• S3 gateway
• File gateway
• Volume gateway

Question 16

Why would a company use S3 file gateway?

Answer 16

Looks like a normal file share, but isn’t in the background.
Connects on-prem and cloud storage.
Access controlled by IAM in tandem with active directory.
Most recently used data is cached in the file gateway for easier and quicker access.

Question 17

What is the purpose of the AWS transfer family?

Answer 17

Facilitates file transfer into and out of S3 or EFS using the FTP protocol, fully managed.

Question 18

Why would a user use the AWS transfer family?

Answer 18

Share files, public datasets or do customer relationship management

Question 19

Does the AWS transfer family support unencrypted and encrypted protocols?

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

Explain the AWS DataSync service.

Answer 20

A service that allows for the synchronisation of data from other clouds/services or AWS to AWS in a scheduled (NOT continuous) manner

Question 21

What happens to permissions for files and metadata when it is synced using AWS DataSync?

Answer 21

They are preserved