Where is the data stored by using Amazon EC2?

I have a large set of data to be analyzed and I am planning to use Amazon EC2 to compute. So I am wondering where can I sto开发者_运维问答re the data for computing.

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There is a lot of lingo in the amazon world.

You can either store the data on an EBS drive connected to your EC2 instance, or if it is in MySQL format or a simple format, you could consider storing it on Amazon's managed MySQL service called RDS.

EC2 units can either be backed by S3 storage, or EBS volumes. If you want to have rapid access to your data, you will need to choose an EC2 instance backed by Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS). EBS gives you the flexibility to use any database or data structure you want.