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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 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 ...
On June 29, 2012, several websites that rely on Amazon Web Services were taken offline due to a severe storm in Northern Virginia, where AWS's largest data center cluster is located. [103] On October 22, 2012, a major outage occurred, affecting many sites including Reddit, Foursquare, Pinterest. The cause was a memory leak bug in an operational ...
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 ]
Amazon S3 Glacier is an online file storage web service that provides storage for data archiving and backup. [2]Glacier is part of the Amazon Web Services suite of cloud computing services, and is designed for long-term storage of data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval latency times of 3 to 5 hours are acceptable.
Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed in-memory data store and cache service by Amazon Web Services (AWS).The service improves the performance of web applications by retrieving information from managed in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases.
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]