Storage Services Review

Question 1

What are the storage services?

Answer 1

S3
EC2 Instance Store
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EFS (Elastic File System)
Storage Gateway
Backup

Question 2

S3

Answer 2

Highly available cloud object storage

Question 3

EC2 Instance Store

Answer 3

One of the 2 EC2 Storage types
Physically attached to the host computer and cannot be removed
Not persistent (ephemeral)
Good for buffers, caches,

Question 4

EBS

Answer 4

Elastic Block Store - a storage device (volume) that can be attached or removed from your EC2 instance
Persistent
Relational or NoSQL
Big Data

Question 5

EFS

Answer 5

Elastic File System - serverless file system
Auto-scale
Reduce costs by automatically removing infrequently accessed files
ONLY for LINUX

Question 6

Storage Gateway

Answer 6

Hybrid storage service that connects on-prem data to cloud data
Back up data to the cloud

Question 7

Backup

Answer 7

Manage data backups across multiple data services
Centralized and automate data protection across services and On- premises