Module 6 Flashcards
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Storage for specific Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Think of it as the storage drive for your EC2 instance.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
A web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Think of it as renting a computer in the cloud.
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Slower storage that uses a spinning disk to store data.
Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS)
Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS)
A common performance measurement used to benchmark computer storage devices like hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs).
Solid state drive (SSD)
Very fast storage that uses flash memory instead of a spinning disk.