Storage Comparison

• S3 - Object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere.

• Glacier - Long-term, secure, durable Amazon S3 object storage.

• Elastic File System (EFS) - Scalable, elastic, cloud-native NFS file system; only for Linux instances.

• FSx for Windows File Server - Fully managed file storage built on Windows Server.

• FSx for Lustre - Fast and scalable shared storage to power your compute workloads; POSIX compliant.

• Elastic Block Store (EBS) - Easy to use, high performance block storage at any scale.

• EC2 Instance Store - Physically attached, temporary, block-level storage for your instance with very high IOPS.

• Storage Gateway - On-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.

• Snowball - Petabyte-scale data transport.

• Snowmobile - Migrate or transport exabyte-scale data.