EFS

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget, elastic file system that lets you share file data without provisioning or managing storage. It can be used with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources, and is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications. With Amazon EFS, you can grow and shrink your file systems automatically as you add and remove files, eliminating the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth.

Amazon EFS offers you the choice of creating file systems using Standard or One Zone storage classes. Standard storage classes store data within and across multiple availability zones (AZ). One Zone storage classes store data redundantly within a single AZ, at a 47% lower price compared to file systems using Standard storage classes, for workloads that don’t require multi-AZ resilience.

The core benefits are:

• Provides secure access for thousands of connections for Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers, as well as AWS compute services
• Provides the throughput, IOPS, and low latency needed for Linux workloads
• Automatically and instantly scales file system storage capacity up or down as files added or removed
• Fully managed service
• No need to provision storage in advance and there are no minimum commitments or up-front fees
• Allows you to securely access your files using existing security infrastructure

EBS

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance, block-storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction intensive workloads at any scale. A broad range of workloads, such as relational and non-relational databases, enterprise applications, containerized applications, big data analytics engines, file systems, and media workflows are widely deployed on Amazon EBS.

Designed for mission-critical systems, EBS volumes are replicated within an Availability Zone (AZ) and can easily scale to petabytes of data. Also, you can use EBS Snapshots with automated lifecycle policies to back up your volumes in Amazon S3, while ensuring geographic protection of your data and business continuity.

The core benefits are:

• For mission-critical applications such as SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft products
• Offers 99.999% availability
• Optimize costs and invest in a precise level of storage for application needs
• Easy to create, use, encrypt, and protect
• Build applications that require as little as a single GB of storage, or scale up to petabytes of data
• Newly-created EBS volumes can be encrypted by default with a single setting

FSx

Amazon FSx makes it easy and cost effective to launch and run popular file systems that are fully managed by AWS. With Amazon FSx, you can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative tasks such as hardware provisioning, software configuration, patching, and backups. It provides cost-efficient capacity with high levels of reliability, and integrates with a broad portfolio of AWS services to enable faster innovation.

The core benefits are:

• Offers a range of Solid-State Disk (SSD) and Hard Disk Drive (HDD) storage options
• Delivers fast, predictable, scalable, and consistent performance
• Runs on the same highly reliable infrastructure used by other Amazon Web Services
• Launch a fully managed, highly reliable file system In minutes and with a few clicks
• Automatically encrypts your data at-rest and in-transit
• Integrates with other AWS services

S3 Glacier

Amazon S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive are secure, durable, and extremely low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage classes for data archiving and long-term backup. They are designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provide comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can help meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements. Customers can store data for as little as $1 per terabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions. To keep costs low yet suitable for varying retrieval needs, Amazon S3 Glacier provides three options for access to archives, from a few minutes to several hours, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive provides two access options ranging from 12 to 48 hours.

The core benefits are:

• Provides three retrieval options to fit use case
• Designed for 99.999999999% of durability and data is automatically distributed across a minimum of three physical Availability Zones
• Offers sophisticated integration with AWS CloudTrail to log, monitor and retain storage API call activities for auditing, and supports three different forms of encryption
• The lowest cost Amazon S3 storage classes
• Includes tens of thousands of consulting, systems integrator and independent software vendor partners

AWS Storage Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage. Customers use Storage Gateway to simplify storage management and reduce costs for key hybrid cloud storage use cases. These include moving backups to the cloud, using on-premises file shares backed by cloud storage, and providing low latency access to data in AWS for on-premises applications.

The core benefits are:

• Easily integrates with standard storage protocols on-premises
• Access on-premises and stored durably in AWS Cloud storage services
• Caches data in the local VM or gateway hardware appliance, providing low-latency disk and network performance
• High availability on VMware meets the operational needs of uninterruptible, latency-sensitive workloads such as media drives, streaming log repositories, and storage for scientific instruments
• Built in compression, encryption, and bandwidth management are built in
• Enables business to leverage the infinite scale of the AWS Cloud as business needs fluctuate

AWS Backup

AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services. AWS Backup offers a cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based service that further simplifies data protection at scale. AWS Backup also helps you support your regulatory compliance or business policies for data protection. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy data protection policies to configure, manage, and govern your backup activity across your organization’s AWS accounts and resources.

The core benefits are:

• Configure backup policies from a central backup console
• Save time and money with AWS Backup’s fully managed, policy-based solution
• Enforce backup policies, encrypt backups, and audit backup activity from a centralized console to meet backup compliance