Storage Flashcards
What is an AWS Hybrid Storage Service? What are some examples?
Hybrid Storage Services are services the connect on-prem storage, applications and workloads with the AWS Cloud. Some examples are:
- AWS Storage Gateway
- AWS Outposts
- Amazon File Cache
Describe the function of each of the following AWS Services:
- AWS Storage Gateway
- AWS Outposts
- Amazon File Cache
- AWS Storage Gateway: Connects on-prem storage with storage services in the cloud. Also provides connection management and caching
- AWS Outposts: Functions as an extension of the AWS Cloud inside your on-prem data center with connections to your on-prem network and systems
- Amazon File Cache: Provides a high speed cache on AWS that serves a temporary, high-performance storage for data on premises or with AWS
Complete the following statements:
- __________ functions as an extension of the AWS Cloud inside your on-prem data center with connections to your on-prem network and systems
- ___________ provides a high speed cache on AWS that serves a temporary, high-performance storage for data on premises or with AWS
- ____________ connects on-prem storage with storage services in the cloud. Also provides connection management and caching
- AWS Outposts
- Amazon File Cache
- AWS Storage Gateway
Describe the expected function of each of the following AWS Services:
- AWS Storage Gateway
- AWS Outposts
- Amazon File Cache
- On-premises gateway to AWS Cloud
- On-premises AWS Storage
- In-cloud caching of on-premises data
What are the expected use cases of AWS Storage Gateway?
- Move backups and archives to the cloud
- Reduce on-prem storage with cloud-backed file shares
- Provide on-prem applications low-latency access to data stored in S3
- Provide data lake access for pre-processing and post-processing workflows
What are the expected use cases of AWS Outposts?
- Low-latency, local data processing needs for on-prem locations, such as retail stores, branch offices, healthcare provider locations, financial institutions and factory floors
- Acces to cloud native services while fulfilling data residency requirements
What are the expected use cases of Amazon File Cache?
- Boost visual effects rendering and transcoding workloads to AWS to meet peak compute needs during media production
- Accelerate high performance compluting cloud bursting workloads
- Speed up access to your on-premises and in-cloud datasets
- Run advanced analytics on petabytes of on-prem data
What are the different types of storage gateway offered by AWS? Describe each of them.
- S3 File Gateway: Allows file storage on S3 buckets through both SMB and NFS protocols, while also performing local caching. Can acess all types of S3 data with the exception of S3 Glacier
- FSx File Gateway: Allows on-prem access to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server using SMB protocol. Useful for file systems in general.
- Volume gateway: Allows storage on S3 backed by EBS snapshots through the iSCSI protocol, and operates either in cached mode, where it maintains a local data cache while moving the data to Amazon S3 as its primary location, or in stored mode, where the primary storage location is the gateway and it is backed-up on schedule to S3
- Tape Gateway: Allows the storage of on-prem tape backups created using iSCSI to S3, on Virtual Tapes on a Virtual Tape Library (VTL),
How can you integrate storage gateway with active directory?
Using the SMB Protocol, since it has integrations with AD for user authentication
Declare True or False for the following statements:
- Tape Gateway by deafult stores data on S3 IA
- Storage Gateway uses a read-through write-back cache to store your data
- All data in transit is encrypted
- Pricing for Storage Gateway is calculated only based on the amount of data stored and the amount of data transfered out of AWS.
- For Storage Gateway to work, it is necessary to setup either the Storage Gateway Appliance or VM on-prem or EC2.
- Whenever you create a storage gateway, it works for any AWS Region
-False, it uses S3 Glacier or Glacier Deep Archive
-True
-True
-False, it is based on the gateway type, the AWS storage used and either the actual amount of storage or the allocated amount of storage that you use
-True
-False, it works only for the region where it was setup
What does NFS and SMB mean?
Network File System and System Message Block
What AWS services are compatible with AWS Outposts?
- S3
- EBS
- Elasticache
- RDS
- EMR
- EC2
- ECS
- EKS
- Application Load Balancer
What is the Snow family of services on AWS? What services make it up?
The Snow family a group of services offered by AWS to perform the transfer of data on locations with limited internet bandwidth or to serve as storage on edge locations. It’s made-up of 3 services: Snowcone, Snowball Edge and Snow Mobile
What are the differences between Snowcone, Snowball Edge and Snow Mobile
- Their storage capacities are differente, with Snowcone accepting between 8TB HDD and 14TB SDD, Snowball Edge 80TB and Snow Mobile up to 100PB
- Their migration capacity is different, with Snowcone accepting upt to 24TB, Snowball Edge Petabytes and Snow Mobile Exabytes (better than Snowball afte 10 PB)
- Snowcone can perform migrations of either online or offline data, while the other ones accept only offline
- Snowcone comes with DataSync agent installed (what possibilitates online transfer)
True or False: The best Snow service to use on ML on Edge Locations is generally Snowcone
False, it is Snowball edge (Better computing, GPU Support, can be clustered)
What is AWS DataSync?
It is a service that allows you to move large amount of data between AWS, other clouds, edge locations and on-prem while mantaining high performance and security
How does AWS DataSync pricing work?
You pay a flat amount per GB transferred
True or false: When using DataSync, you need to configure the DataSync client on a VM before hand regardless of the trasnference type
False, you only need to configure a DataSync agent if you are not transfering from AWS to AWS
What are the possible destinations inside AWS used by DataSync?
-S3
-FSx
-EFS
What are the services offered on the File Transfer Family?
-File Transfer Protocol (FTP): Data transfer over TCP/IP
-File Transfer Protocol Secure (FTPS): Data transfer over TCP/IP using SSL/TLS encryption
-Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP): File transfer protocol using SSH
- Applicability Statement: Using HTTPS to transfer messages, especially Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messages
What is the AWS Transfer Family? Where can it send data to?
It is a group of services that allow you to transfer file data into S3 or EFS using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
When should you se DataSync over the Transfer family?
DataSync is recommended for larger workloads and migrations while Transfer Family is recommended for more conventional application transfers
What is the cache type of Storage Gateway?
Least Recently Used (LRU)
True or False: The only type of FSx that Storage Gateway can connect to is FSx for Windows File Server
True