Instance stores and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Instance stores and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

1. Types of stores

   • some instances
     • Instance store volumes
     • instances restart on onether host
       • data deleted

2. Amazon EBS

   • Create virtual hard drives
     • EBS Volumes
       • attach to EC2 instances
     • tied to the host that EC2 is running
   • Separeted drives from the instance store volumes
   • Data persiste between start and stop
   • Snapshots
     • Incremental backups
       • Yhe first backup taken of a volume copies all the data, changed since the most recent snapshot are saved.
   • To create an EBS volume
     • define the configuration
       • volume size
       • type

3. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

   • Store data as objects
     • In object storage, each object consists of data, metadata, and a key.
       • Metadata contains information about what the data
       • An object’s key is its unique identifier.
   • Store objects in buckets
   • Upload a maximum object size of 5TB
   • Store and retrieve an unlimeted amount of data
   • Version Objects
   • Create multiple buckets
   • Create permissions to limit acesss
     • permissions to control visibility and access to it

4. Amazon s3 Standard

   • 99.9999999999% durability
   • data in a minimum of three Availability Zones.

5. Amazon S3 static website hosting

   • Collection of HTML files
   • Each file is akin to a physical page of the site

6. Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

   • Data that is accessed less frequently
   • Store Backups
     • Disaster recovery files

7. Amazon S3 Glacier

   • archive data
   • Storage class to store archived customer records
   • S3 Glacier Deep Archive
     • Able to retrieve objects within 12 hours
       • consider how quickly you need to retrieve archived
   • few minutes to a few hours
     • storage class

8. Amazon S3 lifecycle management

   • Move data automatically between tiers

9. S3 Intelligent-Tiering

   • data with unknown or changing access patterns
     • moves it to the infrequent/ frequent access