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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides raw block-level storage that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances and is used by Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). [1] It is one of the two block-storage options offered by AWS, with the other being the EC2 Instance Store. [2] Amazon EBS provides a range of options for storage performance and ...
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Amazon S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its e-commerce network. [ 3 ]
Amazon Relational Database Service (or Amazon RDS) is a distributed relational database service by Amazon Web Services (AWS). [2] It is a web service running "in the cloud" designed to simplify the setup, operation, and scaling of a relational database for use in applications. [ 3 ]
This makes it possible for multiple users on multiple machines to share files and storage resources. Distributed file systems differ in their performance, mutability of content, handling of concurrent writes, handling of permanent or temporary loss of nodes or storage, and their policy of storing content.
Storage-optimized instances cost as much as $4.992 per hour (i3.16xlarge). "Reserved" instances can go as low as $2.50 per month for a three-year prepaid plan. [a] [24] [25] The data transfer charge ranges from free to $0.12 per gigabyte, depending on the direction and monthly volume (inbound data transfer is free on all AWS services [26]).
Amazon releases Amazon Kinesis, a service for real-time processing of streaming data. [77] [78] 2013: December 18: Regional diversification: AWS launches in China, with a limited preview of its Beijing region. [79] [80] However, due to Internet censorship in China, its China data center is not part of the global AWS network. Rather, it is a ...
Dynamo is a set of techniques that together can form a highly available key-value structured storage system [1] or a distributed data store. [1] It has properties of both databases and distributed hash tables (DHTs). It was created to help address some scalability issues that Amazon experienced during the holiday season of 2004. [2]
Amazon SimpleDB is a distributed database written in Erlang [1] by Amazon.com. It is used as a web service in concert with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon S3 and is part of Amazon Web Services. It was announced on December 13, 2007. [2] As with EC2 and S3, Amazon charges fees for SimpleDB storage, transfer, and throughput over the ...