The AWS storage lineup comprises fundamental storage services offered by Amazon Web Services. This array of AWS storage solutions empowers businesses to swiftly acquire storage capacity without the need to invest significant time, finances, or resources in purchasing costly storage hardware that could become outdated within a few years.

AWS Storage Services encompass three primary storage categories:

Block Storage
File Storage
Object Storage

In the following paragraphs, I will provide simplified explanations for these three main storage types, which constitute the core storage services within AWS.

Block Storage: (EBS)

Much like DAS (Direct Attached Storage), Amazon's cloud-based storage, known as Elastic Block Storage (EBS), is well-suited for mission-critical applications and those that demand low-latency storage hosting. EBS, being a block storage solution, offers various classes within AWS:

General Provisioned SSD: gp3 and gp2
Provisioned IOPS SSD: Io1, Io2, and Io2 Block Express
Throughput I-Optimized HDD: St1, Sc1
Use Cases for EBS include:

Running databases
On-premises storage migration
Scaling your big data engines

File Storage (EFS)

Much like NAS (Network Attached Storage), Amazon's Elastic File System (EFS) serves as Amazon's solution for file storage and is particularly well-suited for data that needs to be shared. AWS offers various types of EFS storage:

Amazon FSx for Lustre
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
Use Cases for EFS include:

Streamlining DevOps processes
Modernizing applications
Improving content management systems
Supporting data science initiatives

Object Storage (S3)

Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) serves as Amazon's offering in the realm of object storage. Renowned for its cost-effectiveness, S3 proves to be the ideal destination for storing items such as snapshots or backups. The various tiers of AWS S3 encompass:

S3 Standard
S3 Standard-IA (Infrequent Access)
S3 Intelligent-Tiering
S3 One Zone-IA
Additionally, AWS Glacier provides options for:

Instant Retrieval
Flexible Retrieval
Deep Archive
Use Cases for S3 and Glacier include:

Data Lake

S3 is the optimal storage choice for running big data analytics, machine learning, and high-performance computing. Learn more here]

Backup and Restore

Ensure compliance with your Service Level Objectives (SLO) by meeting your Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO). Learn more here

Low-Cost Data Archival

AWS's different tiers, including Glacier, enable companies to securely store their cold data at the lowest possible cost. Learn more here

Cloud-Native Applications

Expedite the development and launch of highly scalable cloud or web-based native applications. Learn more here

In the Next Post, I will be diving deep into each of the aws core storage services.

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