Amazon EFS: Elastic File System

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) is a scalable, elastic, cloud-native file system for Linux OS. It's managed file storage for Amazon EC2. https://youtu.be/AvgAozsfCrY Features Amazon EFS is elastic, so it automatically grows and shrinks as storage demands go up and down.  It's a fully managed service, which means you can create or configure Amazon EFS … Continue reading Amazon EFS: Elastic File System

AWS Snow Family: Data Storage, Migration, and Computation

AWS Snow Family is a "family" of AWS services that provide data storage, migration, and compute resources. It is made up of AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball, and AWS Snowmobile. Ever imagined yourself hiking up Mount Everest or trekking deep deep into the Amazon rainforest and doing some data crunching? No? Well, with the AWS Snow … Continue reading AWS Snow Family: Data Storage, Migration, and Computation

AWS Storage Gateway: Connect On-Prem with Cloud

In the most basic sense, Amazon Storage Gateway connects your On-Premises storage with AWS Cloud storage.  It is a cost-effective way to securely store data in the AWS cloud. It will seamlessly back up your On-Premises data to Amazon S3.  You pay as you go, paying only for the storage you utilize. https://youtu.be/XXQNXwx8nfE Storage Gateway: a Virtual … Continue reading AWS Storage Gateway: Connect On-Prem with Cloud

Amazon EBS: Elastic Block Store

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block storage volumes for EC2 Instances.  Unlike some other types of storage volumes, it doesn't get deleted when you terminate or stop the EC2 Instance it's attached to. Once you create an EBS volume, it automatically gets replicated within the Availability Zone to offer high availability and durability.  You can … Continue reading Amazon EBS: Elastic Block Store

Amazon S3: Simple Storage Service

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) provides safe, secure, highly-scalable object-based storage on the cloud. You only pay for what you use, have unlimited storage, and the sizes of individual files can be anywhere between 0 bytes and 5 terabytes. Amazon S3 is one of the basic and important core systems in AWS.  When an object … Continue reading Amazon S3: Simple Storage Service