Cloud Storage on AWS

Reliable, scalable, and secure storage for your data

Maximize economic advantages by migrating to AWS Cloud Infrastructure

Analyst firm, Enterprise Strategy Group, validated that organizations reduced compute, networking, and storage costs by up to 66% by migrating on-premises workloads to AWS Cloud Infrastructure.

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Why Cloud Storage on AWS?

Millions of customers use AWS cloud storage services to transform their business, increase agility, reduce costs, and accelerate innovation. Choose from a broad portfolio of storage solutions with deep functionality for storing, accessing, protecting, and analyzing your data.

Benefits of Cloud Storage on AWS

Make resources available in minutes, not weeks. Speed time to market, avoid complex capacity planning, and reduce over-provisioning with just a few clicks.

Minimize your total cost of ownership (TCO) with managed services that eliminate infrastructure maintenance. Optimize your storage costs based on how frequently and quickly you need to access your data.

Safeguard your data with unmatched security and storage designed for 99.999999999 (11 9s) of durability and multi Availability Zone resilience. Keep data available to your applications with data resilience provided through options from granular restore to recovery across AWS and on-premises environments.

Choose from a variety of tools to get more from your data and accelerate new product and service delivery. Run big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), high-performance computing (HPC), and media processing applications on all your cloud data.

Enable generative AI with secure, scalable data lakes, high-performance storage for model training, and integration with AWS data services for generative AI to customize foundation model responses and differentiate applications with your data.
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AWS cloud storage services

Object, file, and block storage

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Object storage with industry-leading scalability, availability, and security for you to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere.
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
A simple, serverless, elastic, set-and-forget file system for you to share file data without managing storage.
Amazon FSx
Fully managed, cost-effective file storage offering the capabilities and performance of popular commercial and open-source file systems.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Easy to use, high-performance block storage service for both throughput and transaction-intensive workloads at any scale.
Amazon File Cache
High-speed cache for datasets stored anywhere, accelerate cloud bursting workloads.

Data migration

AWS DataSync
Online data transfer service that optimizes network bandwidth and accelerates data movement between on-premises storage and AWS storage.
AWS Snow Family
Offline data transfer devices with built-in security and logistics features for simplified data migration.

Hybrid cloud storage and edge computing

AWS Storage Gateway
Hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.
AWS Snow Family
Edge compute, data collection, and data transfer services with security and end-to-end logistics for mobile and rugged deployments.

Managed file transfer

AWS Transfer Family
Simple and seamless file transfer to Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS using SFTP, FTPS, and FTP protocols.

Disaster recovery and backup

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)
Minimize downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery.
AWS Backup
Fully managed, policy-based service to centrally manage and automate data protection, compliance, and governance for applications running on AWS.

Use cases

Lift and shift your existing workloads to AWS quickly using like-for-like storage for simple cloud migration. Move your network-attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN), and Hadoop workloads as-is with AWS services, and evolve at your own pace.

Consolidate your data so it’s easier to model and analyze. Use Amazon S3 to build a secure, durable, and scalable data lake. Take advantage of its integration with a wide range of services for analytics and ML.

Build cloud-native applications and get to market faster with a microservices architecture and more. Choose AWS storage services that persist and share data from your AWS containers and serverless applications.

Extend secondary storage targets to the cloud to address exponential data growth. Migrate copies of on-premises data to AWS and protect applications already in the cloud with services from AWS and AWS Partners.

Meet long-term retention requirements with AWS storage services. Manage compliance and digital preservation with services that provide security, reliability, unlimited scalability, and 99.999999999% durability. Access data faster than on-premises tape.
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