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Other Storage Services While the AWS services S3, EBS, and EFS can be considered the foundation of storage in the AWS Cloud, there are plenty of other storage services that might be critical for your organization. In this section, we will examine three of them: FSx, AWS Storage Gateway, and AWS Backup. FSx AWS FSx…

Elastic Block Store (EBS) When you spin up a virtual machine in the EC2 service of AWS, that machine is going to need a boot volume in order to function. AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides persistent block storage volumes for use with EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Each Amazon EBS volume is automatically…

S3 Storage Classes While initially S3 did not offer many different storage classes, times have changed. Today, AWS offers many different classes to permit you to save on costs while providing the required levels of durability. At this writing, the following storage classes are available in AWS S3: S3 Standard: This is the default storage…

Fundamental Storage Services Companies today are creating massive amounts of data that needs to be stored. They are turning to block-based, file-based, and object-based storage solutions to try to keep up with their storage demands. AWS wants to be of assistance and offers many different cloud-based storage solutions covering the gamut of storage technologies. In…

Other Network Services While there are many other network services in AWS, two of the ones you need to be familiar with are discussed in this section: Route 53 and CloudFront. Each performs critical functions that you need to understand. Route 53 Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System…

Fundamental Network Services It is pretty amazing when you think about just how much “networking” AWS is responsible for. If we take a recent estimate of the number of AWS customers, we are looking at about 1.5 million entities (at this writing). That number is amazing enough, but when we remember that each of these…

Other Database Services As time has passed, more and more specialized database types have been developed. This is partly due to the fact that relational database structures and designs do not work well for storing the data of newer and different technologies. In this section, we examine some of the various non-relational database services of…

Relational Database Services Relational databases are some of the oldest and most cherished database technologies in tech today. Is it any surprise that AWS created a service called Relational Database Service (RDS)? Amazon’s marketing department definitely wanted to make it very clear: If your organization relies on relational database technologies, and you want to experience…

Serverless Compute An important revolution in public cloud technology—the invention of serverless computing—occurred years ago. Sure enough, serverless compute has remained a hugely important part of public cloud. Cloud customers no longer need to spin up virtual machines that they then must manage. Instead, serverless computing makes a pool of compute horsepower available to cloud…

Container Options Containers are very popular—and with good reason. These virtualization components are smaller and more efficient than virtual machines when it comes to making a single application or service available. As a result, more and more organizations are turning to containers for delivering their solutions. AWS is perfectly aware of this. In fact, Amazon…