FILE STORAGE AND DATA TRANSFER SERVICES

Question 1

Amazon Simple
Storage Service (S3)

Answer 1

Service that provides object storage for objects up to 5
TB in size - with no limit on the total storage

Question 2

S3 Glacier and Glacier
Deep Archive

Answer 2

Archive storage classes for Amazon S3. These are
designed for objects you need to keep but don’t plan to
access.

Question 3

Amazon Elastic Block
Store (EBS)

Answer 3

Persistent block storage designed for use with a single
EC2 server. It can scale to support petabytes of data and
supports different volume types.

Question 4

Amazon Elastic File
System (EFS)

Answer 4

Fully managed NFS file system designed for Linux
workloads with support for petabytes of data.
This service can be used in a hybrid cloud architecture.

Question 5

AWS Snowball

Answer 5

Petabyte scale data transfer service where a physical
device is delivered to your organization and returned by
a local carrier then loaded into Amazon S3
This service can assist in data migration into the cloud
from your data center.

Question 6

AWS Snowmobile

Answer 6

Exabyte scale data transfer service where a ruggedized
shipping container is sent to your office then loaded into
Amazon S3
This service can assist in data migration into the cloud
from your data center.