AWS EBS & S3 – Block vs Object Storage, Lifecycle, Encryption
90 Days of Cloud Challenge: Day 4
By Sandip Das · · 7 min read
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We should learn AWS EBS (block storage) and S3 (object storage) because understanding their differences in storage type, lifecycle, and encryption helps design scalable, cost-efficient, and secure infrastructure tailored to workloads.
This knowledge is essential for optimizing performance and implementing best practices in cloud-native architectures.
We should learn AWS EBS (block storage) and S3 (object storage) because understanding their differences in storage type, lifecycle, and encryption helps design scalable, cost-efficient, and secure infrastructure tailored to workloads.
This knowledge is essential for optimizing performance and implementing best practices in cloud-native architectures.
📚 Key Learnings
- Understand the difference between Block Storage (EBS) and Object Storage (S3).
- Learn use cases:EBS → low-latency storage for EC2 instances.S3 → scalable object storage for unstructured data.
- Explore storage lifecycle management (archival, tiering, cleanup).
- Learn encryption options in AWS: SSE-S3, SSE-KMS, SSE-C, and EBS encryption.
- Compare performance characteristics of EBS vs S3.
- Learn backup &
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Topics: AWS EBS, AWS S3, Community, AWS, 90 Days of Cloud