AWS raw materials from the official White Paper https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/
applicable scenario S3 of:
- Amazon S3 is used to store and distribute static web content and media static website content and media files.
- Amazon S3 is used to host entire static websites. Static web hosting.
- Amazon S3 is used as a data store for computation and large-scale analytics, such as financial transaction analysis, clickstream analytics, and media transcoding. Large computing and data storage analysis based tasks such as financial, click stream (do not know the so turn) as well as the media file transcoding.
- Amazon S3 is often used as a highly durable, scalable, and secure solution for backup and archiving of critical data. Critical data backup and archiving.
Glacier applicable scene: the archive, can be used as alternative to tape.
Organizations are a using Amazon Glacier to Support A Number The of use Cases THESE use Cases the include Archiving Offsite Enterprise Information, Media Assets, and Research, and Scientific the Data, and Also Performing Digital Preservation and Magnetic Tape Replacement..
EFS applicable scene: multi-threaded, multi hosts to share.
Highly Parallelized Workloads the Supports the EFS amazon IS and the Designed to Meet The Needs of Big Data and Performance Analytics, Media Processing, Content Management, Serving Web, and Home Directories.
EBS: amount of change, persistent storage, block storage.
Amazon EBS is meant for data that changes relatively frequently and needs to persist beyond the life of EC2 instance. Amazon EBS is well-suited for use as the primary storage for a database or file system, or for any application or instance (operating system) that requires direct access to raw block-level storage.
Instance storage:极高的IO，临时存储。
EC2 local instance store volumes are ideal for temporary storage of information that is continually changing, such as buffers, caches, scratch data, and other temporary content, or for data that is replicated across a fleet of instances, such as a load-balanced pool of web servers. EC2 instance storage is well-suited for this purpose.
Storage gateway:企业级文件共享，备份文件至S3,灾备，归档。
Organizations are using AWS Storage Gateway to support a number of use cases. These use cases include corporate file sharing, enabling existing on-premises backup applications to store primary backups on Amazon S3, disaster recovery, and mirroring data to cloud-based compute resources and then later archiving it to Amazon Glacier.
Snowball:TB,PB级数据上云。
Snowball is ideal for transferring anywhere from terabytes to many petabytes of data in and out of the AWS Cloud securely.Common use cases include cloud migration, disaster recovery, data center decommission, and content distribution.
CloudFront:内容分发，流媒体。
CloudFront is ideal for distribution of frequently accessed static content that benefits from edge delivery, such as popular website images, videos, media files or software downloads. Amazon CloudFront can also be used to deliver dynamic web applications over HTTP. These applications can include static content, dynamic content, or a whole site with a mixture of the two. Amazon CloudFront is also commonly used to stream audio and video files to web browsers and mobile devices.