Three main types
File Storage
<ul>
<li>Data stored as files in a hierarchy
</li>
<li>Typical use cases are web application, extended home directories
</li>
</ul>
Block Storage
<ul>
<li>Data is stored in fixed-size blocks.
</li>
<li>Updating data is changing just one part
</li>
<li>Suitable for files that need frequent updates or high transaction rates like Containers, Virtual Machines
</li>
</ul>
Object Storage
<ul>
<li>Data is stored as objects in buckets
</li>
<li>The whole file needs to be updated
</li>
<li>Suitable for WORM (Write Once Read Many times) models like Data archiving, Backup &amp; recovery
</li>
</ul>
Amazon EFS
<ul>
<li>Is a file system that automatically grows and shrinks as you add and remove files
</li>
<li>One can connect multiple compute instances at the same time without any hit to performance
</li>
<li>There are two primary types
<ul>
<li>Multi-region -- EFS Standard storage &amp; EFS Standard Infrequent Access
</li>
<li>One zone -- EFS One Zone &amp; EFS One Zone-Infrequent Access
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Amazon FSx
<ul>
<li>Fully managed service to launch, run &amp; scale high performance file systems in the cloud. Four widely used file systems supported -- Lustr, NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS &amp; Windows File Server</li>
</ul>

Three main types

File Storage

* Data stored as files in a hierarchy
    
* Typical use cases are web application, extended home directories
    

Block Storage

* Data is stored in fixed-size blocks.
    
* Updating data is changing just one part
    
* Suitable for files that need frequent updates or high transaction rates like Containers, Virtual Machines
    

Object Storage

* Data is stored as objects in buckets
    
* The whole file needs to be updated
    
* Suitable for WORM (Write Once Read Many times) models like Data archiving, Backup & recovery
    

Amazon EFS

* Is a file system that automatically grows and shrinks as you add and remove files
    
* One can connect multiple compute instances at the same time without any hit to performance
    
* There are two primary types
    
    * Multi-region -- EFS Standard storage & EFS Standard Infrequent Access
        
    * One zone -- EFS One Zone & EFS One Zone-Infrequent Access
        

Amazon FSx

* Fully managed service to launch, run & scale high performance file systems in the cloud. Four widely used file systems supported -- Lustr, NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS & Windows File Server

AWS Storage Types