Amazon Simple Storage Service
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is where individuals, applications, and a long list of AWS services keep their data. It’s an excellent platform for the following: – Maintaining backup archives, log files, and disaster recovery images – Running analytics on big data at rest – Hosting static websites S3 provides inexpensive and reliable storage that can, if necessary, be closely integrated with operations running within or external to Amazon web services . This isn’t the same as the operating system volumes you learned about in the previous chapter: those are kept on the block storage volumes driving your EC2 instances . S3, by contrast, provides a space for effectively unlimited object storage. What the difference is between object and block storage? With block-level storage, data on a raw physical storage device is divided into individual blocks whose use is managed by a file system. NTFS is a common file system used by Windows, while Linux might use Btrfs or...