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Posted On Sep 16, 2020Choosing the right AWS storage service for your data means choosing the closest match for availability, reliability, and efficiency of the data.
Amazon provides storage services in three different categories: object block, and file storage. Each of them offering is designed to meet a different storage requirement which helps you to find the solution that works best for your storage scenarios.
Object Storages
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a highly scalable, user-friendly storage of objects that works well for unstructured data sets like media content. The Amazon S3 provides the AWS Cloud with the highest degree of data reliability and availability. This means it can be used by consumers of all sizes and sectors to store and secure any amount of data across a variety of use cases, such as websites, mobile apps, backup and restore, archiving, business applications, IoT computers, and big data analytics. To optimize the storage costs, you can easily move data between these storage options: Amazon S3 Standards, Amazon S3 Standard - Infrequent Access (Amazon S3 Standard - IA), and Amazon Glacier.
Block Storages
A block storage volume works similarly to a hard drive. You can store any type of files on it or even install a whole Operating System on it. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is like a hard drive in the cloud that provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. These volumes can be connected to your EC2 instances, allowing you to build a file system on top of these volumes, run a database, server, or use them in some other way that a block device can be used.
There are different types of EBS volumes. You can use whatever works best for your use case:
SSD storage: EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2), EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)
HDD storage: Throughput Optimized HDD (st1), Cold HDD (sc1)
File Storages
AWS Elastic File System (EFS) is one of the three main storage services offered by Amazon. It is a scalable, cloud-based file system for Linux-based applications and workloads that can be used in combination with AWS cloud services and on-premises resources. EFS offers a choice between two storage classes, Infrequent Access, and Standard access, depending on your needs. Standard access storage is designed for frequently accessed files while Infrequent Access is intended for storing long-lived but less used files at a lower cost.
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