AWS Storage extras

Question 1

What is the AWS snow family and it’s use cases?

Answer 1

It’s a highly secure portable device to collect and process data at the edge, and migrate data into and out of AWS and are offline devices that all you to perform data migrations

It’s use case is: data migration and edge computing (if it takes more than a week to transfer over the network use snowball devices)

Question 2

What are some features of AWS snowcone & snowcone SSD?

Answer 2

1. Small portable computing anywhere, rugged & secure withstands harsh environment
2. Light (4.5 pounds, 2.1kg)
3. Device used for edge computing, storage, and data transfer
4. Snowcone - 8TB of HDD storage
5. Snowcone SSD- 14 TB of SSD storage
6. Use snow cone where snowball doesn’t fit & it can be sent back to AWS offline or connect it to internet and use AWS datasync to send data

Question 3

What are some features of AWS Snowmobile?

Answer 3

1. Transfer exabytes of data (1EB = 1000 PB)
2. Each snowmobile has 100 PB of capacity (ue mulitoke in parallel)
3. High security: temperature controlled, GPS, 24/7 surveillance
4. Better use case than snowball if you transfer more than 10 PB (main thing)

Question 4

What is edge computing?

Answer 4

Process data while being created on an edge location (an edge location is a location that may process data but doesn’t have access to internet like on a boat, truck, mining facility)

Question 5

What are the different use cases for edge computing?

Answer 5

1. Preprocesss data
2. Machine learning at the edge
3. Transcoding media streams

Question 6

What are the different snow family used for data migration ?

Answer 6

1. Snowcone
2. Snowball edge
3. Snowmobile

Question 7

Which snow family is used for edge computing?

Answer 7

1. Snowcone & Snowcone SSD (smaller)
2. Snowball edge (compue optimized)
3. Snowball edge (storage optimized)

Question 8

What is AWS OpsHub?

Answer 8

It’s a software you install on your computer/ laptop to manage your snow family device

Question 9

When you want to import snowball into glacier what must you do?

Answer 9

Must use Amazon S3 first in combination with an S3 lifecycle policy ( since snowball canning import to glacier directly it imports to S3 and S3 uses the lifecycle policy to transfer it to glacier)

Question 10

What are some features of FSx for windows (file server)?

Answer 10

1. FSx for window is fully managed windows file system share device
2. Supports SMB Protocol & window NTFS
3. Microsoft Active Directory Integration, ACLs, user quotas
4. Can be monies on Linux EC2 instances
5. Supports Microsoft distributed file System (DFS) namespaces (groups files across multiple FS)
6. Scale up to 10s of GB/s, millions of IOPS, 100s of PB of data
7. SSD: latency sensitive workloads
   - HDD: broad spectrum of workload ( main things are these two)

Question 11

What are some features for Amazon FSx for lustre?

Answer 11

1. Used for machine learning, high performance computing (HPC) (main thing to look for)
2. Seamless integration with S3

Question 12

What are the file system deployment options for FSx?

Answer 12

1. Scratch file system
   - Used for temporary storage
   - Data is not replicated
2. Persistent file system
   - Long term storage
   - Data is replicated within same AZ
   - Replace failed files within minutes
   - Usage: long term processing, sensitive data

Question 13

What are some features of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP?

Answer 13

1. File system compatible with NFS, SMB, isCSI protocol (main thing)
2. Point in time insta Sous cloning (helpful for testing new workloads)(main thing)
3. Move workloads running on ONTOA or NAS to AWS

Question 14

What are some features of Amazon FSx for Open mZFS?

Answer 14

1. Managed openZFS file system on AWA
2. Move workloads running on ZFS to AWS

Question 15

What is Amazon storage gateway and its use cases?

Answer 15

1. Bridge between on premises data and cloud data
2. Use cases:
   - Disaster recovery
   - Backup & restore
   - Tiered storage

Question 16

What are the different types of storage gateways?

Answer 16

1. S3 File Gateway
2. FSx file gateway
3. Volume Gateway
4. Tape Gateway

Question 17

What are some features if Amazon S3 file gateway?

Answer 17

1. Configured S3 bucket are accessible using the NFS and SMB protocol
2. Most recently used data is cached in the file gateway
3. Transition to S3 glacier using a lifecycle policy

Question 18

What are some features of Amazon FSx file gateway?

Answer 18

1. Native access to Amazon FSx for windows file server
2. Local cache for frequently accessed data

Question 19

What are some features of volume gateway?

Answer 19

1. Block storage using iSCSI protocol backed by S3
2. Backed by EBS snapshots which can help restore on premises volumes
3. Cached volumes: low latency access to most recent data
4. Stored volumes: entire dataset is on premise, scheduled backups to S3

Question 20

What are some features of storage gateway hardware appliance?

Answer 20

1. Using storage gateway means you need on premises virtualization or you can use the storage ga tree at hardware appliance
2. Works with file, volume and tape gateway & has required CPU, memory, network, SSD cache resources

Question 21

What is the AWS transfer family and its use case)

Answer 21

It’s a fully managed service for file transfer into and out of Amazon S3 or Amazon EFS using the FTP protocol

Use cases: sharing files, public datasets, CRM, ERP, etc

Question 22

What are the different protocols that AWS transfer family supports?

Answer 22

1. AWS Transfer for FTP (file Transfer Protocol)
2. AWS Transfer for FTPS
3. AWS for SFTP

Question 23

What is AWS dataSync used for?

Answer 23

1. To move large amount of data to and from
   - On-promises/ other cloud to AWS - needs agent
2. Can synchronize to:
   - Amazon S3
   - Amazon EFS
   - Amazon FSx
3. Has the ability to keep the file permissions and metadata