AWS offers a variety of highly available, scalable, reliable, and secure storage services to address various organizational needs. It provides a rich web console for all of the services that is easy to access and navigate. Its easy-to-use UI complements efficient services for quickly performing day-to-day administrative tasks. AWS also provides a set of API and CLI interfaces. You can use APIs and CLIs to perform advanced operations or to automate various tasks using customized applications and scripts.
The following topics are covered in the chapter:
- Storage and backup services provided by AWS
- Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
- AWS Storage Gateway
- AWS Snowball
- AWS Snowmobile
