Storage Comparison
Updated Jul 26, 2020 ·
NOTES
This is not an exhaustive documentation of all the existing AWS Services. These are summarized notes that I used for the AWS Certifications.
To see the complete documentation, please go to: AWS documentation
Storage Comparison
| AWS Storage | Description |
|---|---|
| S3 | Object Storage |
| Glacier | Object Archival |
| EFS | Network File System for Linux instances, POSIX filesystem |
| FSx for Windows | Network File System for Windows servers |
| FSx for Lustre | High Performance Computing for Linux systems |
| EBS volumes | Network storage for one EC2 instance at a time |
| Instance Storage | Physical storage for EC2 instance (high IOPS) |
| Storage Gateway | Hyrbid cloud storage |
| Snowball / Snowmobile | move large data to the cloud, physical |