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AWS Storage Comparison

  • S3: Object Storage
  • S3 Glacier : Object Archival
  • EBS volumes: Network storage for one EC2 instance at a time
  • Instance Storage: Physical storage for your EC2 instance (high IOPS)
  • EFS: Network File System for Linux instances, POSIX filesystem
  • FSx for Windows: Network File System for Windows servers
  • FSx for Lustre: High Performance Computing Linux file system
  • FSx for NetApp ONTAP: High OS Compatibility
  • FSx for OpenZFS: Managed ZFS file system
  • Storage Gateway: S3 & FSx File Gateway, Volume Gateway (cache & stored), Tape Gateway
  • Transfer Family: FTP, FTPS, SFTP interface on top of Amazon S3 or Amazon EFS
  • DataSync: Schedule data sync from on-premises to AWS, or AWS to AWS
  • Snowcone / Snowball / Snowmobile: to move large amount of data to the cloud, physically
  • Database: for specific workloads, usually with indexing and querying