🏪 AWS Storage

aws-storage.txt

Amazon S3
> Object storage
> Industry leading - scalability, availability, security, performance
> Easy to use management features
> Easy to organize data and configure finely tuned access controls
> 11 9's of durability

Amazon Elastic Block Store
> Persistent block storage volumes for use with EC2
> Each EBS volume is automatically replicated within its AZ to protect from failure
> Offers high availability and durability
> Offers consistent and low latency performance to run workloads
> Scale usage up and down within minutes

Amazon Elastic File System
> Simple scalable elastic file system for Linux based workloads for use with AWS cloud and on prem.
> Built to scale to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically.
> Provides massively parallel shared access to thousands of EC2s
> Enabled apps to achieve high levels of aggregate throughput and IOPS with consistent latency 
> Fully managed
> Regional service storing data within and across AZs 
> Access file systems across AZs and regions and share files in cloud and on-prem using AWS Direct connect or AWS VPN

Suited to use cases:
  > Highly parallelized
  > Scale out workloads
  > High throughput -> single threaded workloads
  > Latency sensitive workloads
  > Lift and shift apps
  > Big Data,
  > Web and content management
  > App dev and testing
  > Media and entertainment
  > DB backups
  > Container storage
  
Amazon FSx for Lustre (dedicated for Windows file server too)
  > Fully managed file system
  > Optimized for compute intensive workloads usch as ML or mediata processing
  > High perforamnce - low latency, scale out, parallele file system
  > Looks after the overhead
  > Integrated with S3 making it easy to link to long term data sets with high performance file systems 
  > Automatically copy from S3->FSx.
  
S3 Glacier
  > Secure, durable and low cost storage
  > Suitable for back up and archiving
  > 9, 9's durability
  > Comprehensive security and compliance 
  > Significant storage over on prem
  > Different access SLAs from few minutes to several hours
  
AWS Storage gateway 
  > Hybrid allowing you to use onprem applications to use AWS cloud storage.
  > Allows for NFS, SMB and iSCSI