Until now, we have seen the different security options and methodologies that are available in AWS to ensure the security of your application, infrastructure, and data.
In this chapter, we will dive deep into data security. So, before going into the security aspect, let's look at the kind of storage we have in AWS.
In AWS, we have the following two categories of storage:
- Ephemeral: This is volatile in nature. It stores data temporarily but ensures very high performance. Ephemeral storage comes with EC2 instances. We also call it the instance store. The basic reason behind using ephemeral storage is to store the cache in transaction data, which changes very frequently. We cannot store any critical data in ephemeral storage.
- Persistent: This is used to store the data you want to access from time to time for operational purposes. For persistent...
