AWS Storage Services

- S3: general
- Glacier: archiving & backup
- EBS: block storage (disks)
- Storage Gateway: connect on-premise with storage in AWS infrastructure

Know what version of Python you're using. There are differences. For instance, when dealing with strings:

Python 3: bytes contains sequences of 8-bit values, str -> seqs of Unicode chars

Python 2: str contains sequences of 8-bit values, unicode -> seqs Unicode chars