Mastering AWS Storage Solutions

AWS Cloud Technology and Services Concepts

Rahulraj Singh

Technical Product Manager

Introduction to AWS storage

• AWS provides a diverse range of storage services tailored to meet various needs
• Crucial for securely managing, storing, and retrieving data in the cloud

Introduction to AWS storage

• AWS provides a diverse range of storage services tailored to meet various needs
• Crucial for securely managing, storing, and retrieving data in the cloud

Introduction to AWS storage

• AWS provides a diverse range of storage services tailored to meet various needs
• Crucial for securely managing, storing, and retrieving data in the cloud

Storage types in AWS

What is object storage?

• Storage architecture that manages and organizes data as discrete units called "objects"

 

Key characteristics:

• Horizontal scaling
• Metadata management
• Storing unstructured data

Amazon S3

 

A highly scalable and durable object storage service offered by AWS

• Designed for 99.999999999% (11 9's) durability
• Available in all AWS regions

Storage classes in S3

S3 storage classes

Standard

• Durable, scalable, and available in all AWS regions
• Suitable for frequently accessed data

Intelligent Tiering

• Automatic cost optimization
• Moves objects between tiers based on changing access patterns

S3 storage classes

One Zone-Infrequent Access (IA)

• Cost-effective, single availability zone
• Ideal for infrequently accessed data that can be easily reproduced

Glacier

• Low cost, archival storage
• Long-term archival with retrieval times ranging from minutes to hours

S3 storage classes

Glacier Deep Archive

• Lowest cost, longest retrieval time
• Data with minimal access requirements

S3 Outposts

• On-premises storage extension
• Combine private and public cloud data

What is block storage?

Divides data into fixed-sized blocks, each with its unique address

 

Use cases

• Running I/O intensive transactional web applications
• Right-size big data analytics engines

Amazon EBS

A scalable, high-performance block storage service designed for use with Amazon compute services

Exploring file storage services

Organizes and stores data in a hierarchical structure

Key characteristics

• Allows multiple concurrent reads and writes across users and services
• Stores metadata about files

Amazon EFS

File storage service designed for use with AWS cloud services and on-premises resources

Use cases

• Simplify DevOps
• Enhance content management systems
• Accelerate data science

Cache storage services in AWS

Storing frequently accessed data in a quickly retrievable location

• Accelerates application response times by reducing data retrieval latency
• Minimizes the load on backend servers

Amazon ElastiCache

Caching service that enables seamless, high-speed access to frequently used data

Use cases

• Store web application session data in-memory
• Accelerates access to real-time analytics data

Revisiting AWS storage types

 

Revisiting AWS storage types

 

Revisiting AWS storage types

 

Revisiting AWS storage types

 

Storage lifecycle policies

Defines the transition of objects between storage classes in S3, based on predefined rules

• Cost and performance optimization
• Improves data management and compliance

AWS Backup

Cost-effective, fully managed service that centralizes and automates backup across AWS services

• Cross-region backups
• Set retention and deletion policies

Let's practice!

AWS Cloud Technology and Services Concepts