AWS Cloud Storage Service

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A AWS Cloud Storage Service is a Cloud data storage service that is an AWS service.

References

2016

  • https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2IH2LGI&ct=150626&st=sb
    • QUOTE: Key storage services: Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS; block storage), Amazon Elastic File System (EFS; file storage currently in preview), Amazon Glacier (archival object storage), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3; multiple tiers of object storage)
      Amazon Web Services (AWS) dominates the IaaS market and has the most comprehensive storage offerings. Amazon S3 is 1.6 times as large as all the other object storage services in this Magic Quadrant combined, as measured by amount of data stored. AWS' storage offerings include various tiers of block and object storage services that span performance and durability across commensurate price tiers. AWS also offers its Elastic File System (EFS), a managed service with support for Network File System (NFS). This gives customers the ability to "lift and shift" applications to public cloud IaaS environments, but it is expensive relative to its other storage services. AWS has more insight than any other vendor on how customers use public cloud storage services at scale. This deep knowledge of customer usage and AWS' ability to both react to and build solutions ahead of the market forms the basis for its overall competitive strength. AWS customers benefit by using a vendor that is often the first to offer new category-defining features and services. This was recently evidenced by AWS being the first to offer premium block and file storage on SSD (EBS provisioned IOPS [PIOPS], EFS), cold tiers of block and object storage (EBS Magnetic, Glacier) and an event-driven microplatform as a service (PaaS, AWS Lambda) that is well-integrated to its storage services.
    • Strengths
      • The scale at which AWS operates its public cloud storage services dwarfs the other vendors in this Magic Quadrant. This results in customers using a provider with clear operational abilities, even if it isn't the least expensive option.
      • AWS has the most extensive public cloud storage services, including block, file and object interfaces designed to match a wide variety of workloads ranging from low-cost, lower-performance to higher-cost, higher-performance and options in between.
      • AWS's storage services are well-integrated with each other and its other services such as Lambda, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and AWS Import/Export Snowball, delivering compelling solutions spanning compute, storage, networking and security.
    • Cautions
      • Retrieving a large amount of data from Amazon Glacier within a short window of time can result in high retrieval fees, but staging this request over time to avoid such high retrieval fees is exceedingly difficult and leads to much higher recovery time objective (RTO). Exporting data using Snowball results in high bandwidth charges even though no public network is used.
      • Pricing for various AWS storage services is complicated and thus difficult to understand and predict, particularly when request charges, IOPS, data transfer and throughput need to be considered to appropriately match workload characteristics to infrastructure.
      • Organizations can experience improved agility by using AWS, but this should be tempered with the fact that customers frequently overprovision compute and block storage resources that are not fully utilized, often negating the benefits of agility by increasing costs. AWS needs to improve its capabilities to help customers consume services more efficiently when using its platform.
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