30 days of AWS - Part 4: AWS Storage

Welcome to part 4 of 8 of the '30 days of AWS'.

Cloud storage is a critical component in cloud computing because it holds information that is accessed by your applications. Cloud storage is typically more reliable, secure, and scalable than on-premise alternatives.

AWS cloud storage offers storage options in 3 categories:

• Object storage i.e S3


• Block storage i.e EBS


• File storage i.e EFS

The most common form of storage is object storage

Cloud storage types

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