AWS Storage Popular Customers

• Drop Box (Now they have their own infra)
  
• Amazon Prime music/videos, Netflix
  

Backup and Archival

• Backup is meant for recovering quickly from failures
• Archival is mean for recovering from disasters
  
• Cloud Storage solutions are very popular and cheaper for both backup and archival solutions

Data Engineering

• Every Organization has data, which is used for two purposes
  • Business Intelligence
  • Machine Learning/AI
• Data in you orgnaization comes from
  • Databases
  • DataWarehouses
  • PDF/WORD/TEXT
  • Images
  • Big Data:
    • Hadoop
    • Spark
• Importing data into cloud in the form of lakes etcs.. (Cloud Storage infrastructure)
• Here we need to understand the cloud storage infra services

Object Storage for Streaming/media Solutions

• S3 + Cloudfront (Netflix and Amazon Prime)

Block Storage for Virtual Machines

• EBS (Elastic Block Storage)

Units in Storage

• KB vs KiB
• IOPS
• Throughput

File Shares (Network Storage)

• EFS (Elastic File Share)
• Fsx

Storage Services by AWS