Appendix: Storage Services - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide

AWS Backup

• Centralize and automate data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads
• Fully managed, policy-based service that further simplifies data protection at scale

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

• Easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
• Multiple volume types: general purpose, provisioned IOPS, throughput optimized, cold

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

• Serverless elastic file system
• Create and configure shared file systems for compute services
• Automatically grows and shrinks as files are added and removed

Amazon S3

• Object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance
• Multiple storage classes for cost optimization
• Integration with many other AWS tools

Amazon S3 Glacier

• Long-term, secure, durable storage classes for data archiving at the lowest cost and milliseconds access
• Three archive storage classes (high to low speed/cost): Instant Retrieval, Flexible Retrieval, and Deep Archive

AWS Snowball Edge

• Petabyte-scale data transport with on-board storage and compute capabilities
• Edge computing, data migration, and edge storage device
• Storage Optimized and Compute Optimized versions

AWS Storage Gateway

• Set of hybrid cloud storage services that provide on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage
• Enables on-premises applications to use cloud storage by providing low-latency data access over standard storage protocols
• Local cache stores your most recently used data on premises