Elastic File System (EFS)ĮFS is a managed network file system that is easy to set up right from the amazon console or CLI. EBS is available in both SSD and HDD formats depending on your requirement of speed and volume. They provide absolute low-latency performance and you can also scale up or down your resources as and when required.

EBS volumes are placed in availability zones so that they are replicated to prevent loss of data due to single component failures.

This can be attached to any EC2 instance and used as block storage, which even allows you to install any operating system. Elastic Block Storage (EBS)ĮBS provides block storage which is similar to hard drives to store any kind of data persistently. S3 also allows a simple web-based file explorer to upload files, create folders or delete them. It can also be used to store all kinds of file formats as you would with a dropbox. It also provides easy access control management for all your specific requirements and is almost 100% durable and by almost I mean 99.(11 nines)%. It can store data for any business such as web applications, mobile applications, backup, archive, analytics. Amazon S3 is an object storage service that stores data of any type and size.

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