AWS Storage - Summary
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Summary: Storage Comparison
S3:
S3 Glacier:
EBS volumes:
- Network storage for one EC2 instance at a time
Instance Storage:
- Physical storage for your EC2 instance (high IOPS)
EFS:
- Network File System for Linux instances,
POSIX(Portable Operating System Interface) filesystem
FSx for Windows:
- Network File System for Windows servers
FSx for Lustre:
- High Performance Computing Linux file system
FSx for NetApp ONTAP:
FSx for OpenZFS:
Storage Gateway: bridge storage between on-premises and AWS
S3 & FSx File Gateway
Volume Gateway (cache & stored)
Tape Gateway
Transfer Family:
- FTP, FTPS, SFTP interface on top of Amazon S3 or Amazon EFS
DataSync:
- Schedule data sync from on-premises to AWS, or AWS to AWS
Snowcone / Snowball / Snowmobile:
- to move large amount of data to the cloud, physically
Database:
- for specific workloads, usually with indexing and querying
- Types of Various Units of Memory
- Bit
- Nibble
- Byte
- Kilo Byte
- MegaByte
- Giga Byte
- Tera Byte
- Peta Byte
- Exa Byte
- Zetta Byte
- Yotta Byte
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