Storage Services

Question 1

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

Answer 1

"AWS Simple storage service - S3"
• Save any type of data 
• Server less service - Do not need to worry about infra and provisioning
• Like Dropbox - create a bucket 
• Size is theoretically - Unlimited

Question 2

_____________ is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost storage service for data archiving and long-term backup.

Answer 2

“Amazon S3 Glacier”
• Provides 99.999999999% durability
• For archiving data
• Can setup rules for long term archiving

Question 3

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

Answer 3

“Elastic Block Store - EBS”
• It is highly available, low latency block storage
• Specifically for attaching to servers launched for EC2 servers
• Similar to attaching a hd to your home computer

Question 4

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

Answer 4

“Amazon Elastic File system - EFS”
• It is a network attached storage
• Works with EC2
• Similar to NAS

Question 5

Is a hybrid storage service that enables your on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS cloud storage

Answer 5

“Storage Gateway”

• Cache frequently used data on premises and less frequently used data on cloud

Question 6

__________ is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS.

Answer 6

“Snowball Device”
• It is portable peta byte scale data storage device
• Download data to the devise and send it to AWS, who upload this data to the cloud

Question 7

Storage configurations make sense

Answer 7

• EBS used typically connected directly to Servers
• EFS used typically via a EFS mount connection, when you want to use a networks connected storage
Used when you do not want to worry about block or networks storage, you can connect to the S3 bucket which over time archives to Glacier which is archival mechanism

Question 8

Hybrid Storage

Answer 8

• First step is to transfer large amount of data, Snowball device (high capacity) store and physically transfer this to AWS location to upload to Amazon S3
• To ensure the corp. data center with AWS cloud is synced. AWS storage gateway will orchestrate.
  
  • It will get pop content, store copies on data center for fast access
  • It will also store all of the data in Amazon cloud for disaster recovery

Question 9

S3 Use Cases

Answer 9

S3 is primarily for object storage

• Storing application access
• Static web hosting
• Backup and disaster recovery
• Staging area for Big data

Question 10

EBS Storage Option Types

Answer 10

• SDD - Used for 2nd Volume, high perf.

- HDD (Magnetic) - Used for log, low perf.

Question 11

EBS Data Snapshots are created for

Answer 11

• To share encrypted snapshot
• To archive
• To copy to a different instance & recreate a volume