Tiered storage for cost optimization
AWS provides options for configuring its data storage services with various different tiers of storage types. This significantly helps with optimizing cost and performance depending on the use case requirements. In this section, we will discuss the tiered storage options for Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS.
Amazon S3 storage classes
As mentioned in the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) section, there are various storage classes depending on the use case, access pattern, and cost requirements. We can configure S3 storage classes at the object level. We will discuss these storage classes in the following sections.
Amazon S3 Standard
Amazon S3 Standard is the general-purpose S3 object storage commonly used for frequently accessed data. It provides high throughput and low latency. Some of the common applications of S3 Standard are online gaming, big data analytics, ML model training and data storage, an offline feature store for ML applications...