| Amazon S3 |
Object Storage |
General-purpose cloud storage |
Scalable, versioning, lifecycle, cross-region replication |
| Amazon S3 Glacier |
Object Archival |
Long-term archival, compliance data |
Very low cost, high retrieval latency, used via lifecycle rules |
| Amazon EBS |
Block Storage |
Persistent storage for one EC2 instance
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SSD/HDD options, snapshots, encryption, zonal |
| Instance Store |
Ephemeral Storage |
Temporary storage tied to EC2 |
High IOPS, no durability, deleted on instance stop/terminate |
| Amazon EFS |
File Storage (Linux) |
Shared storage for Linux EC2, containers |
NFS, POSIX-compliant, multi-AZ, auto-scaling |
| Amazon FSx for Windows |
File Storage (Windows) |
Windows-based apps needing SMB shares |
Active Directory, DFS, NTFS permissions |
| Amazon FSx for Lustre |
HPC File System |
High-performance compute (e.g., ML, genomics) |
Sub-ms latency, S3 integration, parallel POSIX |
| Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP |
Enterprise File System |
NAS replacement, hybrid, shared workloads |
SMB/NFS/iSCSI, SnapMirror, S3 tiering |
| Amazon FSx for OpenZFS |
Linux ZFS Storage |
CI/CD, ZFS lovers, compression/snapshots |
NFS, snapshots, clones, OpenZFS on AWS |
| AWS Storage Gateway |
Hybrid Storage |
Extend on-prem to cloud (files, tapes, volumes) |
File Gateway, Volume Gateway, Tape Gateway – backed by S3/FSx |
| AWS Transfer Family |
Managed Transfer |
FTP/SFTP/FTPS into S3 or EFS |
Protocol support, IAM/AD auth, VPC endpoint |
| AWS DataSync |
Hybrid Sync/Migration |
Accelerated transfer between on-prem ↔ AWS |
Schedule-based, 10x faster than rsync, supports NFS/SMB/S3/EFS |
| AWS Snow Family |
Offline Migration |
Petabyte-scale offline data transport |
Snowcone (8TB), Snowball (50-80TB), Snowmobile (100PB) |
| AWS RDS / DynamoDB / etc. |
Database Storage |
Structured data with querying/indexing |
Managed DB engines, backups, replication, encryption |
