🔥 "AWS Storage Deep Dive: Unlocking the Power of EBS, EFS & S3!"


AWS provides several storage services designed to meet different use cases for scalability, security, performance, and cost efficiency. Here are the main AWS storage services:
1. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Use Case: Object storage for unstructured data like documents, images, backups, logs, etc.
Features:
Scalability: Virtually unlimited storage.
Durability: 99.999999999% durability.
Different storage classes (Standard, Intelligent-Tiering, One Zone-IA, Glacier, etc.)
Versioning and lifecycle management.
Data security features like encryption and access control.
2. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)
Use Case: Block storage for EC2 instances (like hard drives).
Features:
Persistent storage that remains available even if EC2 instance is terminated.
Suitable for databases, file systems, and applications requiring low-latency storage.
Different volume types: General Purpose (SSD), Provisioned IOPS (SSD), and Magnetic.
Snapshots for backup.
3. Amazon EFS (Elastic File System)
Use Case: Scalable file storage for use with EC2 instances.
Features:
Network file system (NFS) protocol support.
Can be mounted by multiple EC2 instances.
Scalable and automatically grows and shrinks as files are added or removed.
Supports file-based storage.
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Aman Patel (Amanops)
Aman Patel (Amanops)
I am a DevOps/Cloud Engineer who likes to work on Cloud Infrastructure & Automation, CI/CD, Systems Administration, and Monitoring/Observability. I am an Open Source enthusiast and like to contribute back to the community whenever possible.