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Storage types

Storage types

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Storage types

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- [Instructor] When considering cloud storage there are three basic types. We have file storage, a storage system that we're used to because we do file storage on our PCs and our laptop computers. Block storage, which allows us to structure how information is maintained. So, we're able to allocate a number of blocks and place data within those blocks, generally speaking. And then the most popular, which is object storage, which allows to store information on a database or on a storage system any which way we need to. So, many of the databases that we're going to leverage in the cloud leverage object storage as the way in which they persist data down to the physical or virtual storage system. And they do so because it provides complete flexibility, we don't need to define a structure, we just create a bucket, we put objects inside that bucket. So, examples of object storage include AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, and these…

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