Chapter 5: AWS Services for Data Storing
AWS provides a wide range of services to store your data safely and securely. There are various storage options available on AWS such as block storage, file storage, and object storage. It is expensive to manage on-premises data storage due to the higher investment in hardware, admin overheads, and managing system upgrades. With AWS Storage services, you just pay for what you use, and you don't have to manage the hardware. We will also learn about various storage classes offered by Amazon S3 for intelligent access of the data and reducing costs. You can expect questions in the exam on storage classes. As we continue in this chapter, we will master the single-AZ and multi-AZ instances, and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) concepts of Amazon RDS.
In this chapter, we will learn about storing our data securely for further analytics purposes by means of the following sections:
- Storing data on Amazon...