Storage

In my quest to get started with AWS, I noticed lots of different storage types. I'll make some quick notes about them here.

EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud – The VMs
While not storage, EC2 instances are the basis for anything in AWS

EBS – Elastic Block Storage - $$ - Can be scaled but upgrading costs money
S3 – Simple Storage Service – files and objects - $$
EFS – Elastic File System - - $$$
Glacier – Low cost option for long term storage - $

AWS Snowball - Snowball is designed to make such transfers easy without incurring astronomical network usage fees.

FSx for Lustre - High performance computing for fast processing of workloads. Integrates with S3 and you pay as you go.

AWS Storage Gateway - Seamlessly links your on-premises environment to Amazon cloud storage

Cloud Data Migration Services - A portfolio of services to help simplify and accelerate moving data of all types and sizes into and out of the AWS cloud

AWS Backup - Backups