From the course: Cloud Architecture: Design Decisions (2022)

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What storage is needed?

What storage is needed?

From the course: Cloud Architecture: Design Decisions (2022)

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What storage is needed?

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- [Instructor] In order to make the right design decisions for our cloud storage, we need to define and understand our requirements clearly enough so that we can make informed decisions. Storage is fundamental to cloud computing architecture, considering that most applications leverage storage directly either using the native interfaces that storage systems provide or through a database that leverages some type of storage on the back end to store, retrieve, and manage data. As you can see from this screenshot of a public cloud computing provider, you have lots of choices to make in the type and the size of the storage system that you're looking for. While there are many attributes of cloud-based storage systems to consider, we generally need to assess capacity or how much stuff we need to store such as files, data, and binary, such as audio and video. Storage models that we're looking to employ such as block or object…

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