Serverless Storage

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Amazon S3

Amazon S3 Amazon S3 is a popular abbreviation for 'Simple Storage Solution' and is known as object storage. You can store any number of items in S3, from various documents, to images, videos, entire file systems, and so on. In order to store these resources, you provision your own storage space, known as an S3 'Bucket'. The easiest way to describe a bucket is to compare it to a folder on your computer. Your 'Documents' folder, for instance, may contain all of your Word documents, and you may have sub folders within it, say for 'recipes' or 'projects' or 'schoolwork'. S3 buckets operate similarly, and just like your Documents folder, you can include sub folders and all different resource types. S3 is also a very popular choice for hosting static websites, and just like any other cloud offering, there are also plenty of security constraints in place for you to take advantage of, like bucket encryption, read-only access, and more.

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AWS Lambda

Lambda functions and Fargate serve a great purpose and might accomplish what you need for a very small, hello world-type project, but chances are you want to do a bit more with your serverless applications. Maybe you have a subscription-based product and you have user profiles with data. Or maybe your application is an e-commerce site and you need to store sensitive information, like credit card details. Or maybe you're just trying to save some images or files. Whatever the reason, you clearly need a storage solution, and this is where our serverless storage options come in.

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AWS Fargate

Lambda functions and Fargate serve a great purpose and might accomplish what you need for a very small, hello world-type project, but chances are you want to do a bit more with your serverless applications. Maybe you have a subscription-based product and you have user profiles with data. Or maybe your application is an e-commerce site and you need to store sensitive information, like credit card details. Or maybe you're just trying to save some images or files. Whatever the reason, you clearly need a storage solution, and this is where our serverless storage options come in.

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Amazon Elastic File System

Amazon EFS, Amazon RDS Proxy, Amazon Aurora Serverless, Amazon Redshift Serverless, Amazon Neptune Serverless This is my serverless database catch-all section. In my opinion, S3 and DynamoDB are really the storage solutions you need for serverless development, however, you may find some use cases for these remaining serverless storage options. EFS is the Elastic File System, which automagically sizes for the number of files you have (S3 covers many file storage situations, but if you have something specific in mind, you may want to use EFS). RDS Proxy makes relational database connections more secure. Aurora, Redshift, and Neptune Serverless are basically the serverless versions of these three AWS service offerings. Some of these are up for debate in the serverless community as to whether or not they really constitute as serverless offerings, but since they are not databases I have had a use for in my short career, I will abstain from weighing in here.

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DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB As developers, sometimes we are working with larger, very structured datasets that involve schemas and specific access patterns. For these, a database solution makes much more sense, and luckily we have a serverless option for that too! DynamoDB is a NoSQL database solution that offers lightning fast performance, 'near unlimited' throughput and storage, and backup, restore, and multi-region replication to ensure your data is always available and secure. You can interact with your database using queries, scans, read/writes, and more, all from the AWS console or the comfort of your favorite programming language.

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