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Difficulty: EasyAWS Storage Services

A startup is deploying a web application on AWS. They need a storage option to act as a persistent boot volume for their Amazon EC2 instances, and another storage option to serve as a shared file storage that multiple EC2 instances can mount and access simultaneously.

Which two AWS storage services should the startup select?

  1. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)Answer
  2. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)Answer
  3. C
    Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
  4. D
    Amazon EC2 Instance Store
  5. E
    Amazon S3 Glacier

Answer

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is the correct choice for the persistent boot volume because it provides durable, block-level storage volumes that persist independently of the EC2 instance lifetime. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is the correct choice for shared file storage because it provides a serverless file system that can be mounted by multiple EC2 instances at the same time using the NFS protocol.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the requirement for a persistent boot volume for Amazon EC2 instances.
Amazon EBS is selected because it provides persistent, block-level storage volumes suitable for EC2 boot volumes.
EC2 instances require block storage for their operating systems, and this storage must persist across instance stops and starts.
2
Identify the requirement for a shared file storage system that can be mounted by multiple EC2 instances simultaneously.
Amazon EFS is selected because it supports the Network File System (NFS) protocol, allowing concurrent access from multiple EC2 instances.
Multiple instances need to read and write to the same shared directory structure at the same time.

Key Concept

Differentiating between AWS block, file, and object storage services based on access patterns and persistence requirements.
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