Understanding Amazon's Storage Limits
FAQs
What are the main storage services AWS offers?
The primary storage services offered by AWS are Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for object storage, Elastic Block Store (EBS) for block storage volumes, and Glacier for long-term data archiving.
How does Amazon set limits for cloud storage services?
The storage limits are set based on capacity planning, ensuring optimal performance, enabling fair usage across users, and controlling infrastructure costs.
What are some typical limits imposed on Amazon S3 storage?
For S3, there are operational limits like maximum object size (5TB), maximum buckets per account (100 by default), and maximum number of objects retrievable in a single request (3,500).
What limits does EBS have for storage volumes?
EBS volume storage limits range from 1 GiB to 16 TiB based on the volume type. There are also limits on IOPS performance and total throughput. The number of volumes allowed depends on the EC2 instance type.
How can you avoid hitting the storage limits on AWS services?
Analyze usage trends, archive unused data, remove unwanted data with lifecycle policies, and request limit increases when justified can help avoid hitting AWS storage limits.
What pricing factors impact the cost of AWS storage services?
The amount of storage used, data transfer in/out of the services, number of requests made, and additional features enabled like encryption affect AWS storage costs.
What are some best practices for optimizing AWS storage costs?
Leveraging auto-tiering, setting lifecycle policies, enabling compression/deduplication, using cost-effective storage classes, and analyzing spend data help optimize cloud storage costs on AWS.
