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
