Storage in AWS

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier
Roadmap

• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
• Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
• Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier

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 Core AWS services

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 Storage Services
• Instance store, or ephemeral storage, is temporary storage that is
added to your Amazon EC2 instance.
• Amazon EBS is persistent, mountable storage that can be mounted as a
device to an Amazon EC2 instance. Amazon EBS can be mounted to an
Amazon EC2 instance only within the same Availability Zone. Only one
Amazon EC2 instance at a time can mount an Amazon EBS volume.
• Amazon EFS(Elastic File System) is a shared file system that multiple
Amazon EC2 instances can mount at the same time.
• Amazon S3 is persistent storage where each file becomes an object and
is available through a Uniform Resource Locator (URL); it can be
accessed from anywhere.
• Amazon S3 Glacier is for cold storage for data that is not accessed
frequently (for example, when you need long term data storage for
archival or compliance reasons).

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 Amazon Elastic Block
Store
• Amazon EBS provides persistent block storage volumes for use
with Amazon EC2 instances.
• Persistent storage is any data storage device that retains data
after power to that device is shut off.
• It is also sometimes called non volatile storage.
• Each Amazon EBS volume is automatically replicated within its
Availability Zone to protect you from component failure.
• It is designed for high availability and durability.
• Amazon EBS volumes provide the consistent and low - latency performance that is
needed to run your workloads.
• With Amazon EBS, you can scale your usage up or down within
minutes, while paying a low price for only what you provision

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 AWS storage options

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 AWS storage options
Amazon EBS volumes :These are storage volumes that you
attach to Amazon EC2 instances. After you attach a volume to
an instance, you can use it in the same way you would use a
local hard drive attached to a computer, for example to store
files or to install applications.

Amazon EBS snapshots — These are point-in-time backups of

Amazon EBS volumes that persist independently from the
volume itself. You can create snapshots to back up the data on
your Amazon EBS volumes. You can then restore new volumes
from those snapshots at any time.

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 Amazon EBS
• Amazon EBS enables you to create individual storage
volumes and attach them to an Amazon EC2 instance

• Amazon EBS offers block level storage.

• Volumes are automatically replicated within its

Availability Zone.

• It can be backed up automatically to Amazon S3

through snapshots
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 Amazon EBS
• A backup of an Amazon EBS volume is called a
snapshot.
• The first snapshot is called the baseline snapshot.
• Any other snapshot after the baseline captures only
what is different from the previous snapshot.
• Uses Includes
• Boot volumes and storage for Amazon EC2 instances
• Data storage with a file system
• Database hosts
• Enterprise applications

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 Amazon EBS volume types

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 Amazon EBS features
 To provide an even higher level of data durability, Amazon EBS enables you
to create point-in-time snapshots of your volumes, and you can re-create a
new volume from a snapshot at any time.

 You can also share snapshots or even copy snapshots to different AWS
Regions for even greater disaster recovery (DR) protection

 You can also have encrypted Amazon EBS volumes at no additional cost, so
the data that moves between the EC2 instance and the EBS volume inside
AWS data centers is encrypted in transit.

 As your company grows, the amount of data that is stored on your Amazon EBS
volumes is also likely to grow. Amazon EBS volumes can increase capacity and
change to different types, so you can change from hard disk drives (HDDs) to solid
state drives (SSDs) or increase from a 50-GB volume to a 16-TB volume

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 Estimate the cost for
Amazon EBS
Volumes–Volume storage for all Amazon EBS volume types is charged by
the amount you provision in GB per month, until you release the storage.

IOPS–I/O is included in the price of General Purpose SSD volumes

Snapshots–Amazon EBS enables you to back up snapshots of your data to

Amazon S3 for durable recovery. If you opt for Amazon EBS snapshots, the
added cost is per GB-month of data stored

Data transfer –When you copy Amazon EBS snapshots, you are charged for
the data that is transferred across Regions. After the snapshot is copied,
standard Amazon EBS snapshot charges apply for storage in the destination
Region

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 Amazon EBS volume type
use cases

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Review Questions

• Which AWS services or features provide disaster recovery solutions

for Amazon EC2 instances?

• EC2 Reserved Instances

• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots
• AWS Shield
• Amazon GuardDuty

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Review Questions

• Which AWS services or features provide disaster recovery solutions

for Amazon EC2 instances?

• EC2 Reserved Instances

• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots
• AWS Shield
• Amazon GuardDuty

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Review Questions

Which type of AWS storage is ephemeral and is deleted when an

Amazon EC2 instance is stopped or terminated?

A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

B. Amazon EC2 instance store
C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
D. Amazon S3

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Review Questions

Which type of AWS storage is ephemeral and is deleted when an

Amazon EC2 instance is stopped or terminated?

A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

B. Amazon EC2 instance store
C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
D. Amazon S3

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Review Questions

A company wants to store its files in the AWS Cloud. Users need to be
able to download these files directly using a public URL.
Which AWS service or feature will meet this requirement?

Amazon Redshift
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
Amazon S3

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Review Questions

A company wants to store its files in the AWS Cloud. Users need to be
able to download these files directly using a public URL.
Which AWS service or feature will meet this requirement?

Amazon Redshift
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
Amazon S3

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References

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/what-is-ebs.html

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