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Storage resources and technologies
From the course: CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-004) Cert Prep
Storage resources and technologies
- When it comes to cloud storage, it's important to understand the different technologies that are available to you to make sure you're selecting the right one for your needs. Because if you pick the wrong one, you won't get the performance you need and you might overpay. So we want to get the right tool for the right job. This starts with understanding storage types. Now we have, first of all, object storage. So object storage is about storing an object. It could be a file, but it's some kind of data chunk, right? That's as simple as that. We treat it like an object. We don't care what it is. It could be a PDF, could be a Word document, could be a zip file, could be a raw file, could be a text file, could be a blob of data. It's just an object. We do this using APIs usually across HTTP. Think if you're familiar with AWS S3 buckets. Then we have block storage. This gives us file level access to storage, but specifically…
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