S3 & Storage Services Flashcards
What is S3 One zone IA and what benefits and or use cases is it used best for
S3 One Zone-IA is for data that is accessed less frequently but requires rapid access when needed. S3 One Zone-IA stores data in a single AZ.
What are some of the benefits of S3 standard storage class
S3 Standard - S3 Standard offers high durability, availability, and performance object storage for frequently accessed data.
What is S3 Glacier storage class used for
Amazon S3 Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage class for data archiving and long-term backup. It is designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provide comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can help meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements.
What is S3 Intelligent-Tiering used for
he S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class is designed to optimize costs by automatically moving data to the most cost-effective access tier, without performance impact or operational overhead. It works by storing objects in two access tiers: one tier that is optimized for frequent access and another lower-cost tier that is optimized for infrequent access.
What are the benefits and or use cases for S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class
S3 Glacier Deep Archive is Amazon S3’s lowest-cost storage class and supports long-term retention and digital preservation for data that may be accessed once or twice in a year. It is designed for customers — particularly those in highly-regulated industries, such as the Financial Services, Healthcare, and Public Sectors — that retain data sets for 7-10 years or longer to meet regulatory compliance requirements.
What are the benefits or use cases for Standard IA- Storage class
The Standard–IA storage class (reduces storage costs for files that are not accessed every day. It does this without sacrificing the high availability, high durability, elasticity) and POSIX file system access that Amazon EFS provides. Examples include (keeping files accessible to satisfy audit requirements, performing historical analysis, or performing backup and recovery. )Standard-IA storage is compatible with all Amazon EFS features, and is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon EFS is available.
What is the primary purpose for the Aws Snowball service and how much data can be transfered using it
Snowball - AWS Snowball is a data transport solution that accelerates moving terabytes to petabytes of data into and out of AWS services using storage devices designed to be secure for physical transport. Snowball only provides up to 80 TB of capacity.
What kind of storage service is Amazon S3 and in what structure does it store data
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 stores data in a flat non-hierarchical structure
What are the 4 components to consider for S3 storage pricing
Request & Data retrieval pricing, Data Transfer, transfer acceleration pricing and data management pricing
In what scenarios or use cases is amazon S3 Storage free
You pay for all bandwidth into and out of Amazon S3, except for the following: (1) Data transferred in from the internet, (2) Data transferred out to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, when the instance is in the same AWS Region as the S3 bucket, (3) Data transferred out to Amazon CloudFront (CloudFront).
What is the best use case for the Aws Snowmobile service and how much data can you transfer using it
AWS Snowmobile is an Exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. You can transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile
What does the S3 lifecycle management provide
An S3 Lifecycle configuration is a set of rules that define actions that Amazon S3 applies to a group of objects.
Which HTTP code indicates a successful upload of an object to Amazon S3
200
What is AWS Storage Gateway Volume Gateway
Summary Answer - Supports block-based volumes,
AWS Storage Gateway Volume Gateway represents the family of gateways that support block-based volumes previously referred to as gateway-cached and gateway-stored mode
AWS Storage Gateway File Gateway
Provides a virtual on-premises file server, which enables you to store and retrieve files as objects in Amazon S3
