Summary and Quiz
Get a refresher on the storage options, and take a short quiz to assess your understanding.
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Summary
When working with AWS, storage is more than just saving data, it's about choosing the right tool for our workload’s performance, availability, and cost requirements. AWS offers several storage options tailored for different use cases. Understanding these will help us make informed decisions during development and deployment.
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is the most common option for object storage. It’s highly scalable, durable (99.999999999% durability across multiple Availability Zones), and used for storing static assets, backups, log files, and more. S3 supports features like object versioning, cross-region replication, and server-side encryption. Importantly, S3 provides multiple storage classes (like Standard, Intelligent-Tiering, Standard-IA, and Glacier) that allow us to manage cost by automatically transitioning data based on access patterns using ...