Amazon Web Services Cloud Storage

Amazon Web Services Cloud Storage :


- Amazon Web Services, frequently known as AWS, was the first major player to enter the cloud data storage field. It continues to be a significant force in the market, with products for every corner of the computing realm, including formidable entries in all types of data storage. Like Google, AWS has a wide range of products, all of which are integrated with each other.
- Amazon's network too is rightfully world famous with a reliable, secure infrastructure, capable of serving entrepreneur to enterprise.

- Object storage on AWS falls to S3, short for Simple Storage Service. S3 is definitely straightforward and easy to use, while remaining extremely flexible and powerful. Boasting automatic redundancy, S3 is highly scalable and secure.

- Choose between three different service levels to find the right fit for your data,
  ~Standard Storage, with the highest degree of durability,
  ~Reduced Redundancy Storage, which, at a lower cost, is perfect for non-critical data, and
  ~Amazon Glacier, intended for infrequently accessed data, such as archives and disaster recovery files.

 - AWS supports both relational and non-relational databases.
   ~Their primary SQL solution is Amazon RDS, Relational Database Service, which supports MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. The exact feature set of RDS is dependent on which database engine used, although automatic backups are enabled by default across the board.

  ~ Fully scalable, RDS spins up database instances as needed. Configure your instances to use from one to 32 virtual CPUs, with one to 244 gigabytes of memory.
  ~ In addition to RDS, Amazon Aurora, a MySQL only database service, has recently come online, and is, as of this recording, currently in preview.

  ~DynamoDB is Amazon's key entry in the non-relational database space. This NoSQL driven service supports both document and key-value data structures, and it does it quickly, with single digit millisecond latency for even the largest table.

 - Data is automatically replicated across three regional AWS data centers, and optionally you can take advantage of Amazon's new cross-region replication service to further spread your data around the globe.
 - Pricing is extremely competitive, and if you want to kick the tires a bit, Amazon, at this time anyway, offers a free tier with 12 months of service and fairly generous limits on all services.

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