AWS TL;DR Cheatsheet

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AWS Data & Storage TL;DR

Object & Block Storage

Amazon S3
Buckets • Storage Classes • Lifecycle • Replication • Event Notifications
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EBS Volumes
gp3 • io2 Block Express • Snapshots • Encryption • IOPS
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EFS File System
NFS • Infrequent Access • Replication • Performance Modes
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Serverless Analytics & Query

Athena
Serverless SQL • CTAS • Workgroups • Federated Query • Partitioning
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Glue Crawlers & ETL
Data Catalog • Crawlers • Job Bookmarks • Dynamic Frames
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Glue DataBrew
Visual Data Prep • Recipes • Profiling • No-code ETL
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Lake Formation
Fine-grained Access • Blueprints • ML Transforms • Governance
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Data Warehousing

Redshift
RA3 Nodes • AQUA • Concurrency Scaling • Spectrum • Federated Query
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Redshift Serverless
Auto-scaling • Pay-per-query • Workgroups • Data Sharing
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Relational Databases

RDS (Multi-AZ & Read Replicas)
MySQL • PostgreSQL • Aurora • Performance Insights • Backup
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Aurora (Serverless v2)
Storage Auto-scaling • Global DB • Backtrack • Parallel Query
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DocumentDB (MongoDB compat)
Replica Sets • Cluster Scaling • Backup • Aggregation Pipeline
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Archive, Backup & Governance

S3 Glacier & Backup
Instant • Deep Archive • Vault Lock • AWS Backup Integration
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Macie
PII Detection • Automated Discovery • Findings • S3-focused
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S3 Access Analyzer
Public Buckets • Cross-account • IAM Policy Validation
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Hybrid & Transfer

Storage Gateway
File • Volume • Tape • Cached vs Stored Mode
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Snow Family
Snowball Edge • Snowcone • Snowmobile • Offline Transfer
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DataSync
NFS/SMB → S3/EFS/FSx • Incremental • VPC Endpoints
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