You're reading from AWS for Solutions Architects Design your cloud infrastructure by implementing DevOps, containers, and Amazon Web Services

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789539233

Length 454 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Exploring AWS

2. Chapter 1: Understanding AWS Cloud Principles and Key Characteristics FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

4. Section 2: AWS Service Offerings and Use Cases

5. Chapter 3: Storage in AWS – Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

6. Chapter 4: Harnessing the Power of Cloud Computing

7. Chapter 5: Selecting the Right Database Service

8. Chapter 6: Amazon Athena – Combining the Simplicity of Files with the Power of SQL

9. Chapter 7: AWS Glue – Extracting, Transforming, and Loading Data the Simple Way

10. Chapter 8: Best Practices for Application Security, Identity, and Compliance

11. Section 3: Applying Architectural Patterns and Reference Architectures

12. Chapter 9: Serverless and Container Patterns

13. Chapter 10: Microservice and Event-Driven Architectures

14. Chapter 11: Domain-Driven Design

15. Chapter 12: Data Lake Patterns – Integrating Your Data across the Enterprise

16. Chapter 13: Availability, Reliability, and Scalability Patterns

17. Section 4: Hands-On Labs

18. Chapter 14: Hands-On Lab and Use Case

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Understanding the diﬀerence between block storage and object storage

As we saw in the previous sections, Amazon EBS stores data in blocks whereas Amazon S3 stores data as objects. So now that we have covered both of these services, the obvious question is which one is better to use. And the obvious answer is – it depends.

Amazon S3 is good for, and often used for, the following:

Hosting static websites and web pages
Hosting web images and videos
Storing petabyte-scale amounts of data to perform data analytics on it
Assisting in mobile applications

Amazon EBS is well suited for the following:

Supporting business continuity
Hosting big data applications that require high control of the environment using Hadoop, Spark, and similar frameworks
Enabling software testing
Deploying databases that need to be managed by the user and not AWS

The following table should also help you to decide what service is best for your use...