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Monday, March 14, 2022

EXTRA INFOS: AWS Storages, their Types and Block vs Object Storage




AWS has the following types of Storage types.

  1. Simple Storage Services (S3)
  2. Elastic File System (EFS)
  3. Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
  4. SNOW

Block Storage vs Object Storage:

Block Storage

Object Storage

Block Storage divides the data to be data stored evenly sized blocks.

Object storage stores the file as a whole and does not divide them.

Data Blocks stored in Block Storage would not contain the metadata ( data created, data modified, content type etc).

In Object storage, an object is the file data itself. it has metadata and object Global unique ID.

*Object Global unique ID is a unique identifier for the object.

Block Storage only keeps the address( index) where data blocks are stored and can be mounted as a drive

Object Storage can't be mounted as a drive.


Example of Block Storage is EBS
Example of Object Storage is S3,Dropbox etc. 

Block Storage is suitable for transaction databases, random read/write loads, and structured. databases.

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