AWS Services for Data Storage
AWS provides a wide range of services to store your data safely and securely. There are various storage options available on AWS, such as block storage, file storage, and object storage. It is expensive to manage on-premises data storage due to the higher investment in hardware, admin overheads, and managing system upgrades. With AWS storage services, you just pay for what you use, and you don’t have to manage the hardware. You will also learn about various storage classes offered by Amazon S3 for intelligent access to data and to reduce costs. You can expect questions in the exam on storage classes. As you continue through this chapter, you will master the single-AZ and multi-AZ instances, and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) concepts of Amazon RDS.
In this chapter, you will learn about storing your data securely for further analytical purposes throughout the following sections:
- Storing data on Amazon...