Storage

Question 1

Provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud.

Answer 1

Amazon Elastic Block Store

Question 2

Provides a simple, scalable, elastic file system for Linux-based workloads for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources

Answer 2

Amazon Elastic File System

Question 3

Fully managed file system that is optimized for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing, machine learning, and media data processing workflows

Answer 3

Amazon FSx for Lustre

USE CASE: launch and run a Lustre file system

Question 4

Provides a fully managed native Microsoft Windows file system so you can easily move your Windows-based applications that require file storage to AWS.

Answer 4

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

USE CASE: you can launch highly durable and available Windows file systems that can be accessed from up to thousands of compute instances using the industry-standard SMB protocol

Question 5

An object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

Answer 5

Amazon Simple Storage Service

Designed for 99.999999999% (11 9’s) of durability

Question 6

Secure, durable, and extremely low-cost storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. Option for access to archives is from a few minutes to several hours

Answer 6

Amazon S3 Glacier

Question 7

Secure, durable, and extremely low-cost storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. Access to archives but ranging from 12 to 48 hours

Answer 7

S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Question 8

Enables you to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services. Offers a cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based service that further simplifies data protection at scale

Answer 8

AWS Backup

USE CASE: centrally deploy data protection policies to configure, manage, and govern your backup activity across your organization’s AWS accounts and resources,

Question 9

Hybrid storage service that enables your on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS cloud storage. You can use the service for backup and archiving, disaster recovery, cloud data processing, storage tiering, and migration.

Answer 9

AWS Storage Gateway