6Cloud Storage

In this chapter, we are going to explore the storage options that are offered by AWS and contrast them with what you may be using on-premise. By the end of this chapter, you will understand the choices available for storing your precious data in the AWS cloud. There are many storage options available at AWS. In fact, most of the storage options could not be replicated on-premise; they’re simply too large and durable.

Picking the right storage solution involves some learning and testing on your part and will most certainly involve an element of change, and of trust. And, as we all know, changing something that isn’t broke is usually hard to do. In the past, you may have always selected network-attached storage (NAS) or spun up ...

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