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Effective storage efficiencies

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Effective storage efficiencies

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- [Instructor] When it comes to selecting the optimal storage for your application at AWS, you may find that you're using all types of storage for a single application stack. On the other hand, maybe you're not, and maybe this will educate you on what you could choose to either save you money, make your application faster, or make your application durable, or maybe all of the above. So starting off with block storage, probably the most familiar storage, virtual hard drives, that's EBS, but it could be instant storage. This could be local storage that's super fast, but just temporary. It's got the lowest latency and there's a number of different options for how fast you want it to be, i.e, throughput, do you need IOPS or do you just want an SSD drive, or do you just want cold storage 'cause you barely use the drive? The sharing options, well, it's private, and yet, there's a new volume type, EBS io2, which allows you to share a single volume with up to 16 separate instances, but it has…

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