Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a highly scalable, secure, and cost-effective object storage service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). S3 is designed to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. This document provides an overview of S3, its key features, architecture, and use cases.
Ceph is a distributed, software-defined storage solution designed for scalability, reliability, and performance. It provides object storage, block storage, and file system interfaces from a single unified platform. This makes it suitable for a wide range of workloads, from cloud infrastructure and backups to archiving and high-performance computing.
This document explores various storage architectures and key concepts, including object storage, Single Point of Storage (SPOS), Single Point of Backup and Storage (SPBS), and the distributed storage platform, Ceph. We will discuss their characteristics, trade-offs, and suitability for different use cases.
MinIO is a high-performance, open-source object storage server that is API-compatible with Amazon S3. It is designed for cloud-native workloads, offering a scalable, distributed, and cost-effective solution for storing unstructured data. This document provides an overview of MinIO, its key features, architecture, and use cases.