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AWS provides a variety of cloud storage services, including Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic File System (EFS), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Glacier, and Snowball, to meet application and archival compliance needs. Block storage is ideal for structured databases and random read/write operations, while object storage stores files as whole entities with associated metadata. Object storage solutions, such as AWS S3, allow for unique identification and retrieval of data without the need for physical location awareness.

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AWS Notes 19

AWS provides a variety of cloud storage services, including Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic File System (EFS), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Glacier, and Snowball, to meet application and archival compliance needs. Block storage is ideal for structured databases and random read/write operations, while object storage stores files as whole entities with associated metadata. Object storage solutions, such as AWS S3, allow for unique identification and retrieval of data without the need for physical location awareness.

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AWS STORAGE

AWS offers a complete range of cloud services to support both application and archival
compliance requirements. Select from the objects, files, and block storage services as well as
cloud data migration to start designing the foundation of your cloud IT environments.

Types of storage:

AWS offers 5 types of storage services such as:

1. Simple Storage Service (S3)


2. Elastic File System (EFS)
3. Elastic Block Store (EBS)
4. Glacier
5. Snowball

Difference between Object Storage and Block Storage:

Block Storage:

➢ Block storage is suitable for transitional databases, random read/write loads and
structured database storage.
➢ Block storage divides the data to be stored in evenly sized blocks called data chunks
for instance, a file can be split into evenly sized blocks before it is stored.
➢ Data blocks stored in block storage would not contain metadata. (Data created, data
modified, content type etc.)
➢ Block storage only keeps the address (index number) where the data blocks are stored,
it does not care what is in that block, just how to retrieve it when required.
Object Storage:

➢ Object storage stores the files as a whole and does not divide them.
➢ In object storage an object is: the file/ data itself, its Meta data, object global unique ID.
➢ The object global unique ID is a unique identifier for the object (can be the object name
itself) and it must be unique such that it can be retrieved disregarding where it’s physical
storage location is.
➢ Object storage cannot be mounted as a drive.
➢ Example of object storage solutions are Dropbox, AWS S3, Facebook.

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