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Study break: Reviewing storage services

Study break: Reviewing storage services

- In this section, we learned about different types of storage and different storage services available in AWS. AWS offers three types of storage, object storage, file storage, and block storage. Amazon's simple storage service, or Amazon S3, is one of the most popular services on AWS and is an object storage service. It boasts robust storage class options to meet your budget and retrieval needs. Amazon Elastic Block Store or Amazon EBS behaves like unformatted block device that can be mounted to your Amazon EC2 instance to expand their virtual service storage capabilities. The AWS Snow Family is a suite of AWS hybrid cloud services that does a lot of many things, including providing edge computing, storage and data transfer services through physical devices. The family is currently made up of AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball, and AWS Snowmobile. AWS Storage Gateway connects your on-premises storage with AWS's cloud storage, providing a hybrid storage solution for your IT infrastructure…

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