Domain - Storage Flashcards
To learn more about services which comes under 'Storage' domain.
1
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What is ‘S3’?
A
Object-oriented file system. All files are stored as objects. All objects will be stored in buckets.
2
Q
What is ‘Cloudfront’?
A
Content delivery network. Caching to provide low latency response.
3
Q
What is ‘Elastic Block Storage’?
A
Block level storage, provide high IOPS. They act as a hard drive for EC2 instances. One EC2 instance can be connected to multiple EBS volumes.
4
Q
What is ‘Glacier’?
A
Data Archiving service, offering low prices storage.
5
Q
What is ‘Snowball’?
A
Physical transfer of data to AWS infrastructure. Can be used when we have large amounts of data.
6
Q
What is ‘Storage Gateway’?
A
Provides seamless integration between your on-premise servers and the AWS infrastructures.
