Summary

Congratulations! We have completed Chapter 2 of our AWS self-learn journey: Amazon Cloud Storage Services. In this chapter, we introduced the Amazon EBS and EFS concepts, provisioned block storage and network filesystems for EC2 instances step by step, and then discussed the Amazon S3 services and Amazon data transfer services: Snowcone, Snowball, and Snowmobile.

As you can see, AWS provides these storage solutions to meet different business needs. Amazon EBS provides block storage volumes for EC2 instances, and some use cases include running a database that needs high-performance block storage, hosting a website that requires persistent storage, or an application that requires low-latency access to data. Amazon EFS provides a shared filesystem that can be accessed from multiple EC2 instances simultaneously. Some use cases for EFS include running web applications that require shared file storage, or a big data application that requires shared storage. Amazon S3 provides...