Storage on cloud
- Cloud is all about using someone else’s hardware
- The storage on the cloud refers to storing the docs/files/.. on someone else’s hardware and accessing them from anywhere using internet.
- To address enterprise needs
- AWS offers multiple storage services
- Azure offers mulitple storage services
Enterprise Storage Systems (Needs)
Types
- Disk Storage
- Network Attached Storage/Storage Area Networks/File Share
Usecases
- Storing data
- BCDR (Business continuity and Disaster Recovery) Backup and Archive
- Multimedia content on websites
- Databases
- Data lakes
Findout what
- RTO (Recovery Time Objective), RPO (Recovery Point Objective)
- GB (giga bytes), GiB (Gibi bytes)
- How to measure disk performance
- Throughput: Total amount of data read/write per second. Generally HDD use throughput as metric
- IOPS (Input/Output Operations per second), SSD use IOPS as metric.
