AWS storage mindmap

AWS storage

• Object storage
  • Amazon S3: Object storage designed for 11 nines of durability
    • Storage classes
      • S3 Standard: Frequently accessed data
      • S3 Intelligent-Tiering: Moves objects between tiers by access pattern automatically
      • S3 Express One Zone: Single-digit millisecond access in one Availability Zone
      • S3 Standard-IA: Infrequent access with fast retrieval
      • S3 One Zone-IA: Infrequent access, re-creatable data, one Availability Zone
      • S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval: Archive with millisecond retrieval
      • S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval: Archive with minutes to hours retrieval
      • S3 Glacier Deep Archive: Lowest cost; Standard retrieval within 12 hours
    • Data management
      • Versioning: Keep every version of an object
      • Lifecycle rules: Transition or expire objects automatically
      • Replication: Cross-Region (CRR) and same-Region (SRR)
      • Object Lock: Write once, read many (WORM) retention
    • Security
      • Block Public Access: On by default for new buckets
      • Default encryption: SSE-S3 on every new object; SSE-KMS optional
      • Bucket policies: Resource-based access control
    • Newer bucket types
      • S3 Tables: Managed Apache Iceberg tables
      • S3 Vectors: Vector buckets for embeddings
• Block storage
  • Amazon EBS: Volumes for EC2, in one Availability Zone
    • gp3: General purpose SSD; set IOPS and throughput apart from size
    • io2 Block Express: Provisioned IOPS SSD for the most demanding databases
    • st1: Throughput optimized HDD
    • sc1: Cold HDD, lowest cost
    • Snapshots: Incremental backups stored in S3; copy across Regions
• File storage
  • Amazon EFS: Elastic NFS file system for Linux, across Availability Zones
  • Amazon FSx for Windows File Server: SMB file shares with Active Directory
  • Amazon FSx for Lustre: High-performance file system for HPC and ML
  • Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP: NFS, SMB and iSCSI with ONTAP features
  • Amazon FSx for OpenZFS: OpenZFS file systems over NFS
• Hybrid and transfer
  • AWS Storage Gateway: On-premises access to cloud storage
  • AWS DataSync: Online data transfer and sync
  • AWS Transfer Family: SFTP, FTPS, FTP and AS2 into S3 or EFS
  • AWS Snowball: Offline transfer with physical devices
• Backup
  • AWS Backup: Central backup policies across services and accounts