Comparison of AWS Storage Options

Compare the different storage options provided by AWS side by side.

Now that we have a good understanding of the available storage options on AWS, let’s compare them side by side to find suitable solutions for our application.

We are looking for:

  • A storage option for the operating system and application (base image or boot volume).
  • A storage option for dynamically changing files, like images that are used on our WordPress blog.

For that, we need to keep in mind that WordPress normally stores files in a file system and that our Bitnami WordPress image is stored in an AMI.

Before we conclude, let’s go over the storage options and their properties again.

Storage options and properties

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