ICS608

Cloud
Computing
STORAGE & DB

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
01 STORAGE TYPES

02 EBS

03 S3

04 RDS

05 DynamoDB
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 RECALL
AWS Cloud

Region
Availability Zone A Availability Zone B
VPC
Public subnet Internet gateway Public subnet

Code EC2 Instance EC2 Instance

Data
Files
Private subnet Private subnet

Amazon RDS instance Amazon RDS instance

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STORAGE TYPES
Let’s assume you have a 1GB file. You stored it on the cloud and you wish to update a
letter in that file. If you stored it using …..

BLOCK STORAGE OBJECT STORAGE

File is split into fixed size chunks File is a single unit of data.

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AWS STORAGE TYPES
1. Instance storage
2. EBS: Elastic Block Storage
3. S3: Simple Storage Service
4. EFS: Elastic File Storage
5. Glacier: for deep archives.

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STORAGE TYPES

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BENEFITS OF EBS
1. HIGH AVAILABILITY: When you create an EBS volume, it is automatically
replicated within its Availability Zone to prevent data loss from single points of failure.
2. DATA PERSISTENCE: The storage persists even when your instance doesn’t.
3. DATA ENCRYPTION: All EBS volumes support encryption.
4. FLEXIBILITY: EBS volumes support on-the-fly changes. You can modify volume
type, volume size, and input/output operations per second (IOPS) capacity without
stopping your instance.
5. BACKUPS: Amazon EBS provides you the ability to create backups of any EBS
volume.

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 TASK

WHAT IS EBS
SNAPSHOT

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S3 OBJECT
STORAGE
SIMPLE STORAGE SERVICE

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WHY CAN’T I
STORE THE
EMPLOYEE PHOTOS
ON AN EBS
VOLUME
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S3 CONCEPTS
1. S3 does not mount to an instance.

2. It is a standalone storage solution

3. No storage limit

4. Store flat structure – use identifiers to lookup objects

5. Store objects

6. No object size limit (5TB per object!!)

7. Data can be accessed through a URL from anywhere on the web

8. Distributed storage.

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S3 CONCEPTS

1. You store in S3 bucket

2. Can only upload objects inside a bucket.

3. Folders inside a bucket for logical view only (flat structure)

4. Buckets are region specific

5. Bucket name is globally unique (DNS compliant)

6. Everything in S3 is private by default.

7. Has S3 bucket policies similar to IAM policies but only applies to S3

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S3

REGION SPECIFIC

NAMING RULES

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PUBLIC ACCESS

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BUCKET VERSIONING

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UPLOAD TO BUCKET

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PICTURE UPLOADED

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WHAT SHOULD WE
DO TO ALLOW
ACCESS?

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MAKING PUBLIC

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NOW MAKE IT PUBLIC

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WE MADE THE PREVIOUS OBJECT

PUBLIC.
NOW, EVERYONE CAN SEE IT.
WHAT CAN WE DO TO ALLOW
SPECIFIC PEOPLE ONLY?

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BUCKET
POLICY
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S3 BUCKET POLICIES

EXAMPLE:

{
"Version":"2012-10-17",
"Statement":[
{
"Sid":"PublicRead",
"Effect":"Allow",
"Principal": "*",
"Action":["s3:GetObject"],
"Resource":["arn:aws:s3:::employeebucket/*"]
}
]
}

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 TASK

ADD A BUCKET
POLICY

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S3 USE CASES
• Backup and storage: S3 is a natural place to back up files because it is highly redundant. As
mentioned in the last unit, AWS stores your EBS snapshots in S3 to take advantage of its high
availability.

• Media hosting: Because you can store unlimited objects, and each individual object can be up to
5 TBs, S3 is an ideal location to host video, photo, or music uploads.

• Software delivery: You can use S3 to host your software applications that customers can
download.

• Data lakes: S3 is an optimal foundation for a data lake because of its virtually unlimited scalability.
You can increase storage from gigabytes to petabytes of content, paying only for what you use.

• Static websites: You can configure your bucket to host a static website of HTML, CSS, and client-
side scripts.

• Static content: Because of the limitless scaling, the support for large files, and the fact that you
access any object over the web at any time, S3 is the perfect place to store static content.

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S3 VERSIONING
1. enables you to keep multiple versions of a single object in the same bucket without the
clutter.
2. Helps of recovery from accidental deletions, accidental overwrites, an application failures.
3. Delete the object doesn’t permanently remove the object. It puts a marker on the object

VERSIONING STATES

• Unversioned (the default): No new or existing objects in the bucket have a version.
• Versioning-enabled: This enables versioning for all objects in the bucket.
• Versioning-suspended: This suspends versioning for new objects. All new objects in the bucket
will not have a version. However, all existing objects keep their object versions.

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WHAT IS EFS
SERVICE

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AWS DB

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 AWS MANAGED DB SERVICES

ON PREM UNMANAGED AWS DB (ON EC2) MANAGED AWS DB SERVICE

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AMAZON RDS

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HIGH AVAILABILITY
AWS Cloud

Region
Availability Zone A Availability Zone B
VPC
Public subnet Public subnet

Private subnet Private subnet

Multiple AZ deployment

Data replication
Amazon RDS instance Amazon RDS instance

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BACKUP DATA - AUTOMATED

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BACKUP DATA - MANUAL

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 TASK

WHICH BACKUP
OPTION
SHOULD BE
USED? WHY?
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AMAZON DB SERVICES

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DynamoDB

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DynamoDB

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SUMMARY
01 STORAGE TYPES

02 EBS

03 S3

04 RDS

05 DynamoDB
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THANK
YOU
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