Chapter 4: Deep Dive into Storage Services
This chapter focuses on AWS storage solutions, detailing services like S3 for object storage, EBS for block storage, and EFS for shared file storage. Key features include the creation and management of S3 buckets, understanding various storage classes, and implementing lifecycle policies to optimize costs. It also covers EBS volumes and snapshots, along with the utilization of EFS in scalable applications.
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What we have learnt
- Amazon S3 is a scalable and secure object storage service that supports multiple data types.
- Understanding storage classes and lifecycle policies helps in optimizing costs for data management.
- Amazon EBS provides persistent block storage with snapshots for backup and recovery.
- Amazon EFS enables shared file storage for concurrent access across multiple instances.
Key Concepts
- -- Amazon S3
- A highly scalable, durable, and secure object storage service.
- -- S3 Storage Classes
- Different classes of storage in S3 designed to optimize cost and access speed.
- -- Lifecycle Policies
- Rules that automate the management of objects in S3 storage classes.
- -- Amazon EBS
- Elastic Block Store provides persistent block storage for Amazon EC2 instances.
- -- Snapshots
- Point-in-time backups of EBS volumes stored in S3 for recovery purposes.
- -- Amazon EFS
- Elastic File System is a fully managed, scalable network file system for shared file access.
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