Db Flashcards
EBS Volume
Virtual harddrive or block storage volumes.
Even if you stop/terminate an Amazon EC2 instance, all the data on the attached EBS volume remains available.
How do you create an EBS volume?
You define the configuration such as volume size and type and provision it.
You need to create Amazon EBS snapshots (backups)
Amazon EBS do volumes scale?
No + they need to be in the same AZ to attach EC2 instances
to attach an EBS to an EC2, they must be on the same AZ
What is an instance store?
Provides temporary block-level storage for an amazon ec2 instance.
So if the instance is terminated, the data is also lost
What are Amazon EC2 instances?
Virtual Servers.
Object Storage
each object consists of data, metadata and key
Object data?
image, video, text document and any type of file
Metadata
info about what the data is, how its used, the object size and so on.
Object key
unique identifier
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
it is a service that provides object-level storage. Amazon S3 stores data as objects in buckets.
Max size for amazon s3?
5 TB
Why do you use amazon s3?
to store backup files, media files or archieved documents.
What factors affects Amazon s3?
how often you plan to retrieve you data
how available you need your data to be.
Amazon S3 Standard
Designed for frequently accessed data
Stores data in a minimum of 3 AZ (Available zones)
High cost
Amazon S3 Standard Infrequent Access S3 standard IA
Ideal for infrequently accessed data
Stores data in a minimum of 3 AZ (Available zones)
Similar to Amazon S3 Standard but low storage price and higher retrieval price