Core AWS Storage Services

Question 1

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)

Answer 1

EBS - is good for Databases, ERP systems. This is analogous to direct-attached storage (DAS) or a Storage Area Network (SAN)

Question 2

Amazon EFS (Elastic File System)

Answer 2

EFS is a multi-Availability Zone file storage service that uses NFS protocol

Question 3

Amazon FSx for Lustre

Answer 3

is built using the Lustre file system and is designed for high performance computing (HPC) and machine learning (ML) workloads. FSx for Lustre uses the Lustre client’s POSIX-compliant access protocol.

Question 4

Amazon FSx for Windows

Answer 4

for Windows File Server is built using Windows File Server. The access protocol is Server Message Block (SMB) and designed for your Microsoft applications and Windows workloads

Question 5

Amazon FSx for NetApp

Answer 5

ONTAP is built using the NetApp ONTAP operating system and is designed to provide both NetApp block and file storage. The access protocols are iSCSI for block storage, NFS and SMB for file storage.

Question 6

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

Answer 6

fully managed shared file storage built on the OpenZFS file system. With Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, you can migrate your on-premises OpenZFS storage to AWS with minimal effort. You can use the same access protocols now in the AWS Cloud.

Question 7

AWS S3

Answer 7

AWS uses Amazon S3 as cost effective storage to store snapshots and backups of data stored in other core storage services such as Amazon EBS and Amazon EFS.