Storage Services on AWS

Alejandro FloresSolutions Architect, AWS NoLAfalej@amazon.com

Experience Day, Guadalajara

Agenda

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)• Amazon CloudFront• Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)• Amazon Glacier• AWS Import/Export• AWS Import/Export Snowball• AWS Storage Gateway

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

• Highly scalable object storage• Store and retrieve data from anywhere on the web• Files are stored as objects and organized into high-level

folders called buckets• Supports multi-part upload for large files and event

notifications when objects are uploaded

Amazon CloudFront

• Content delivery network (CDN)• Distribute content to end users with low latency and high

data transfer rates• Supports cookie and query string forwarding• Accelerate data uploaded from end users• Multi-format live streaming

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

• File storage solution for Amazon EC2 instances• Multiple EC2 instances can access an Amazon EFS file

system at the same time• Automatically grows and shrinks as you add and remove files• Supports the Network File System version 4 (NFSv4) protocol• Designed for use cases like content repositories,

development environments, and home directories

Amazon Glacier

• Data archiving and long term storage solution• Retrieval jobs take about 3–5 hours• Optimized for data that is infrequently accessed• Integrates with S3 transition lifecycle policies to

automatically archive objects based on rules• Commonly used to replace offsite tape backup solutions• Extremely low-cost storage ($0.007 per GB / month)*

* as of October 2016

AWS Import/Export

• Accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of the AWS cloud by shipping a portable storage devices such as eSATA/SATA based hard drives or USB flash drives

• Faster than Internet transfer and more cost effective than upgrading your connectivity

• Supports data transfer into Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon EBS snapshots, and Amazon Glacier

• Common use cases are database migrations, offsite backups, and disaster recovery

AWS Import/Export Snowball

• Petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS

• Snowball client encrypts and compresses data before transfering the data to the Snowball appliances

• Supports 1-Gigabit Ethernet, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, and 10 Gigabit SFP+

• If it takes more that a week to upload your data to AWS, then consider using Snowball

AWS Storage Gateway

• Connect an on-premises software appliance VM with cloud-based storage like Amazon S3 or Amazon Glacier

• VM runs on VMWare ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V• Mount as iSCSI device, and expose volumes as

Common Internet File System (CIFS), or Network File System (NFS) mount points to client machines

• Securely upload data to the AWS cloud for cost effective backup and rapid disaster recovery

Overview of AWS Services – Storage & Content Delivery Services v2.0

Summary

AWS S3AWS EFSAWS GlacierAWS Storage GatewayAWS Snowball / Import-ExportAWS CloudFront

Object StorageFile StorageArchiving StorageHybrid StorageTransport Data

Cache Data

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