AWS Storage

Question 1

AWS S3

Answer 1

object storage built to store and retrieve data from anywhere

Question 2

AWS Snowball

Answer 2

transfer hundreds of terabytes or petabytes of data between on-premise data centers and S3

snowball (bulk data transfer, edge storage/compute)
snowmobile (literal shipping container and truck up to 100PB)
snowcone (smallest device in range best suited for outside data centre)

Question 3

AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Answer 3

persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances

multiple EBS volumes to an instance
cannot attach EBS volume to multiple instances (EFC instead)

Question 4

AWS Elastic File System (EFS)

Answer 4

fully managed service that makes it easy to set up and scale file storage in amazon cloud

Question 5

AWS Storage Gateway

Answer 5

hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premise access to virtually unlimited cloud storage

rmb:
ON-PREMISE -> CLOUD

Question 6

AWS Backup

Answer 6

centralised backup console, APIs and command line interface for managing backups across AWS services