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Explore the core file storage choices

Explore the core file storage choices - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Explore the core file storage choices

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- [Instructor] So as we get started taking a look at file storage let's look at the categories that we're going to be working with. In Core File Storage we have some choices. The first one is what's called warm storage and this is for files that you read and write to frequently. Amazon's offering here is a service called S3. For cold storage this is the type of files that are archived, or that you put information in to the archive and you very, very rarely will read it out. In Amazon this service is called Glacier. Now in addition to these core storage offerings AWS also has offerings around virtual machines or EC2 instances, and there's two types that we'll be looking at in this section. The first type is single storage, which is elastic block storage, or EBS, and multiple storage or EFS, elastic file storage, which is a relatively new offering at the time of this recording. And these types of storage have to be…

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