Articles on tiering and optimal selection of S3, EBS, EFS, Glacier, and other AWS storage services
This article explains the internal architecture behind S3's claimed 99.999999999% durability through three mechanisms: data distribution, integrity verification, and automatic repair, with concrete numbers illustrating what 11 nines actually means.
Clarify the criteria for selecting performance modes and throughput modes, and learn how to optimize costs through lifecycle management with automatic tiering to the IA storage class.
Deploy a gateway into your vSphere environment and centrally manage on-premises VMware VM backups with AWS Backup plans. Also covers cross-region copy for disaster recovery.
Automatically optimize costs with six storage classes and lifecycle rules. This article covers the design of versioning, replication, and Object Lock.
Clarify the selection criteria for gp3 and io2 volume types, and learn practical IOPS/throughput design guidelines along with snapshot-based backup strategies.
Learn about centralized backup management with AWS Backup. Covers unified management of backups across multiple AWS services including EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, EFS, and S3, and how to build a data protection strategy that meets compliance requirements.
Learn about integrating on-premises and cloud storage with AWS Storage Gateway. Covers the four gateway types - S3 File Gateway, FSx File Gateway, Volume Gateway, and Tape Gateway - with use cases and deployment patterns.
Clarify the selection criteria for Instant Retrieval, Flexible Retrieval, and Deep Archive. This guide covers automatic tiering with lifecycle policies and compliance support with Vault Lock.
Compare the four FSx file system types - Lustre, Windows, ONTAP, and OpenZFS - and learn guidelines for S3 integration and performance design.
A comprehensive guide covering default encryption setup, cross-account snapshot sharing, and cross-region copy for DR design.
Learn how automatic storage tiering works based on access patterns, when to use Intelligent-Tiering vs. lifecycle policies, and how to leverage archive tiers for maximum savings.
Discover how EBS snapshots can restore a complete volume from any snapshot despite being incremental backups, through block-level differential management, S3 storage structure, and fast snapshot restore internals.
Starting from the fact that S3 has no concept of folders and the "/" in object keys is simply part of the string, this article explains how prefix searches work, the trick the console uses to display folders, and best practices for key design.
A systematic guide to object storage design strategy, covering S3 storage class selection, lifecycle policies, versioning, and replication.
Learn how to build and operate managed file systems using Amazon FSx and Amazon EFS.