AWS cloud storage and databases

- [Instructor] Before we begin building solutions using AWS,…let's take a moment to look at two building blocks…of Amazon's cloud solution architecture.…I'm talking about storage and databases.…Thinking clearly about how we store and use data allows us…to build the right solutions and makes our use…of those solutions cost effective.…Data storage has its variables.…To make the value clear, I'll look briefly…at Amazon's two general solutions to data storage.…How data gets to and from the storage,…and in what manner the storage occurs is outside…of the scope of this course.…

To dig a little deeper, I recommend heading…over to Cloud Architecture: Core Concepts here…in the LinkedIn Learning Library.…AWS provides two general platforms for storage:…one platform for business-critical storage…and one for archival storage.…For business-critical data storage,…AWS built Amazon's Simple Storage Service, or S3.…S3 plays a central role in most…of the solution designs that we will cover.…S3 is the backbone of any AWS cloud solution offering.…