AWS Cookbook

Chapter 3. Storage

3.0 Introduction

Many industries have put a heavy emphasis on cloud data storage technologies to help facilitate increasing demands of data. Many options are available for data storage to suit your needs, with seemingly infinite scale. Even with many new storage options available in the cloud, Amazon S3 remains a powerful, fundamental building block for so many use cases. It is amazing to think that it was released more than 15 years ago. Over time, many features have been added and new storage services launched. Multiple storage options are available to meet security requirements (e.g., key management service [KMS] encryption) while reducing costs (e.g., S3 Intelligent-Tiering). Ensuring that data is secured and available is a challenge that all developers and architects face.

The storage services available on AWS allow for integration with other AWS services to provide ways for developers and application architects who integrate with many AWS services. These services can also be used to replace legacy storage systems you run and operate with on-premises environments. For example:

• S3 can be used to automatically invoke Lambda functions on object operations like upload.

• EFS can be used with EC2 to replace existing shared file systems provided by Network File System (NFS) servers.

• FSx for Windows can be used to replace Windows-based file servers for your EC2 workloads.

• EBS replaces Fibre Channel and Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) targets ...