AWS Storage Components

Category Service Descri­ption
Object storage AWS S3 S3 is the storehouse for the internet i.e. object storage built to store & retrieve any amount of data from anywhere S3
Backup AWS Backup AWS Backup is an extern­all­y-a­cce­ssible backup provider that makes it easier to align & optimize the backup of data across AWS services in the cloud.
Block storage Amazon EBS Amazon Elastic Block Store is a web service that provides block-­level storage volumes.
File storage Amazon EFS Storage EFS offers file storage for the user’s Amazon EC2 instances. It’s kind of blob Storage.
File storage Amazon FSx FSx supply fully managed 3rd-party file systems with the native compat­ibility & charac­ter­istic sets for workloads. It’s available as FSx for Windows server (Fully managed file storage built on Windows Server) & Lustre (Fully managed high-p­erf­ormance file system integrated with S3).
Storage gateway –> 3 types: Tape, File, Volume. AWS Storage Gateway Storage Gateway is a service which connects an on-pre­mises software appliance with cloud-­based storage.
Data transfer AWS DataSync DataSync makes it simple & fast to move large amounts of data online between on-pre­mises storage & S3, EFS, or FSx for Windows File Server.
Transfer Family –> SFTP, FTPS, FTP AWS Transfer Family The Transfer Family provides fully managed support for file transfers directly into & out of S3.
Edge computing and storage and Snow Family –> Snowcone, Snowball, Snowmobile AWS Snow Family Highly­-se­cure, portable devices to collect & process data at the edge, and migrate data into and out of AWS.