Other AWS Storage Options

Question 1

Amazon S3

Answer 1

object storage over internet. for storing static content; up to 5TB; stored in a bucket;

Question 2

Amazon Glacier

Answer 2

highly secure, durable, and very low-cost cloud storage service for archiving fata and taking long-term backups. up to 40TB; archives can be logically isolated in vaults; maximum 1000 vaults per account per region. take 3-4 hours or more to retrieve.

Question 3

Amazon EFS

Answer 3

can be used with ECs instance, scalable file storage; uses NFSv4.1 protocol. available in 2 modes; General Purpose mode and Max I/O mode; provide very high disk throughput. can be used for big data and analytics, media, content management, web serving and home directories. Does not support Windows-based EC2 instance; does not require provisioning a fixed volume in advance. pay what you have use. created at VPC level.

Question 4

Amazon EBS

Answer 4

persistent, block-level storage service from amazon. EBS volume can be attached to an EC2 instance.

Question 5

Amazon EC2 instance store

Answer 5

temporary block-level storage service from Amazon. faster than EBS.

Question 6

AWS Storage gateway

Answer 6

hybrid storage service which connects on-premise environments with cloud storage using a software appliance. compress data in-transit and at-rest for minimizing the data size. 3 types: file gateways, volume gateways, and tape-based gateways. File gateways create a file interface into Amazon S3. using NFS protocol. volume gateways mount a volume as a drive(like iSCSI) in your environment. Tape-based can be used similarly to a tape drive for backup.

Question 7

AWS Snowball

Answer 7

petabyte-scale level data transport solution that uses physical appliances to transfer large-scale of data from on-premise environments to the AWS cloud and vice versa. used for rapidly and securely transferring bulk data at a very economical rate.

Question 8

AWS Snowmobile

Answer 8

Exabyte-scale data transport solution.

Question 9

Amazon CloudFront

Answer 9

Content Delivery Network(CDN); a system of distributed servers spread across edge locations. mainly used for caching static content such as webpage, stylesheets, client-side scripts etc.

Question 10

Volume gateways–Gateway-cached volumes

Answer 10

stores data in S3 and serves as a primary data storage.
create a local copy of frequently accessed data.
up to 32 in a single storage gateway.
can take incremental snapshots which are stored on S3 as EBS snapshots.
encrypted.
allocates storage in 2 parts: Cached storage and upload buffer.

Question 11

Volume gateways – Gateway-stored volumes

Answer 11

maintain entire data set locally. up to 12 volumes per storage gateway.

Question 12

Tape-based storage solutions

Answer 12

2 types: Virtual Tape Library(VTL) and VTS(shelf). Store data in Glacier