Storage Comparison

S3¶

• Object Storage

S3 Glacier¶

• Object archival

EBS volumes¶

• network storage for ONE EC2 instance at a time.
• Cheap
• Single-AZ.

Instance Storage¶

• Physical storage for EC2 instances (high IOPS)
• useful for cache stores
• Temp data

EFS¶

• Network file system for Linux instances
• POSIX FS
• scalable and expensive
• mounted across Multi-AZ

FSx for Windows¶

• Network file system for Windows servers

FSx for Lustre¶

• HPC Linux FS

FSx for NetApp ONTAP¶

• High OS compatibility for a network file system
• Compatibly with NFS, SMB, iSCSI.

FSx for OpenZFS¶

- Managed ZFS file system¶

Storage Gateway¶

• bridge storage between on-premises and AWS
• Storage Types:
  • S3
    • access protocols:
    • NFS
    • SMB protocol
    • supports AD for auth.
  • FSx File Gateway
    • access protocols:
      • NFS
      • AD
      • SMB protocol
  • Volume Gateway (cached & stored)
    • – mount volumes on-premises servers
    • access protocol:
      • iSCSI
  • Tape Gateway
    • backs-ups in tape form.
    • access protocol:
      • iSCSI

Transfer Family¶

• FTP, FTPS, SFTPS interface on top of:
  • S3
  • Amazon EFS

DataSync¶

• Schedule data sync from on-premises to AWS.
• data sync from AWS to AWS

Snowcone / Snowball / Snowmobile¶

• move large amount of data to AWS physically.
• migrate large amounts of data without internet.