Storage

Question 1

Snowball

Answer 1

Physical data transport solution that helps moving TBs or PBs of data in or out of AWS

Question 2

Snowball Edge

Answer 2

Adds computational capability to the device

• custom EC2 AMI, Lambda functions
• Useful for processing data while on the move

Question 3

Snowmobile

Answer 3

Vehicle that can transfer 1EB = 1000PB = 1,000,000TB

Question 4

Storage Gateway

Answer 4

Bridge between on-premise data and cloud data in S3
3 types of Storage Gateway:
• File Gateway
• Volume Gateway
• Tape Gateway

Question 5

File Gateway

Answer 5

System to access files on S3 through NFS and SMB protocol

Question 6

Volume Gateway

Answer 6

System to access block storage on S3 through iSCSI protocol

Question 7

Tape Gateway

Answer 7

Uses the Virtual Tape Library (VTL) to store data on S3

Question 8

File Gateway Hardware Appliance

Answer 8

Physical hardware that supports File Gateway

- Helpful for daily NFS backups in small data centres

Question 9

FSx

Answer 9

Fully managed Windows file system share drive (in comparison to EFS which is a shared POSIX system for Linux systems)

Question 10

FSx for Lustre

Answer 10

(Linux Cluster) is a type of parallel distributed file system, for large-scale computing

Used for High Performance Computing (HPC), good for video processing, financial modelling etc.