AWS Storage

 

 

There are 3 types of storage available in AWS.

·       Object Storage (S3 and Glacier)

·       Block storage (Amazon instance storage and Elastic block storage)

·       File storage (Elastic file system (EFS))

 

 

Object Storage (S3 and Glacier)

 

AWS object storage durable, available and scalable.

Data is automatically distributed across multiple facilities that are geographically separated 

AWS object storage accessible anywhere by http and https

Amazon s3 and glacier are Object storage offered by AWS

 

Note:

Object storage not suitable for installing operating system, data base server or any dedicated application server

File storage (Elastic file system (EFS))

 

Elastic flle storage like a file server.

Amazon EC2 instances can access EFS at a same time all of the EC2 instances can access same time.

This means you can use your AWS elastic file storage with several ec2 instances at the same time.

File storage that is accessible to amazon EC2 instances via a file system interface

Amazon File storage can automatically scale from gigabytes to petabytes of data without needing to provision storage