AWS Storage Services

• Lets try to understand different storage services offered by AWS
• For the link of AWS Console Refer Here
• Storage Services in AWS
• The core storage services offered by AWS are
  • Simple Storage Service (S3):
    • Amazon’s flagship cloud storage service that lets us store and retrieve unlimited amounts of data.
    • In S3 we can store files (binary large objects/blobs)
    • There is no limit to number of files which you can store
    • The file i.e. store on S3 can be accessed over https
    • Individual file size cannot exceed 5 TB
    • Popular S3 use cases:
      • Media content like images, gifs and videos of your website
      • OTT platform video/music files
      • Storing logs of the applications
  • S3 Glacier:
    • Offers long-term archiving of infrequently accessed data, such as backup that must be retained for many years
  • Elastic File System (EFS):
    • Offers a simple serverless storage to share file data across AWS Cloud services and On-premises
    • EFS works with Linux Based OS
  • FSx:
    • Offers network file systems that are fully managed by AWS for Windows systems
  • Storage Gateway:
    • A virtual appliance that seamlessly moves the data back and forth between on-premises server and AWS S3.
  • AWS Backup:
    • This offers us t centralize and automate data protection across AWS services.
  • AWS Snowball:
    • A hardware storage appliance designed to physically move massive amounts of data to or from s3.
  • AWS EBS:
    • Elastic Block Storage is used as virtual disk for the AWS virtual machines (EC2)

Exercise

• Refer Here to create AWS account
• Install necessary software’s on your system Refer Here