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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CLOUD STORAGE
WHAT'S CLOUD STORAGE
Cloud Storage is a global, secure, and scalable object store for immutable data such as images, text, videos, and other file formats. You can add data to it or retrieve data from it as often as your application needs. The objects stored have an ID, metadata, attributes, and the actual data. The metadata can include all sorts of things, including the security classification of the file, the applications that can access it, and similar information. The ID, metadata, and attributes make object storage an appealing storage choice for a large variety of applications ranging from web serving to data analytics.
STORAGE CLASSES
There are four storage classes that are based on budget, availability, and access frequency.
- Standard buckets for high-performance, frequent access, and highest availability
- Regional or dual-regional locations for data accessed frequently or high-throughput needs
- Multi-region for serving content globally
- Nearline for data accessed less than once a month
- Coldline for data accessed roughly less than once a quarter
- Archive for data that you want to put away for years (accessed less than once a year)
It costs a bit more to use standard storage because it is designed for short-lived and/or frequently accessed data. Nearline, coldline, and archive storage offer a lower monthly storage cost for longer-lived and less frequently accessed data.
CHOOSING A LOCATION FOR YOUR USE CASE
Cloud Storage lets you store your data in three types of locations:
- Regional: all of your data is stored redundantly in a single region. Regional buckets usually offer the lowest monthly storage price and are suitable for a wide range of use cases, including high-performance analytics where it is important to co-locate your compute and storage in the same region.
- Multi-region: all of your data is stored redundantly across a continent but it’s not visible which specific regions your data is in. Availability is higher than regional because your data can be served from more than one region. Multi-regions cost a little more than single regions, but are great choices for content serving to the Internet.
- Dual-regions: all of your data is stored in two specific regions. Dual-regions provide the best of regions and multi-regions — providing you with high availability and protection against regional failures while also giving you the high-performance characteristics of regional storage. Business-critical workloads are often best implemented on top of dual-regions. Dual-regions can also be a great choice for a data lake for streaming as well as for batch uploading of data for big data and ML projects.
No matter the location that you select, all four storage classes are available to you so that you can optimize your costs over time, storing your most active “hot” data in Standard and moving it down to colder classes as it becomes older and less frequently accessed.
CONCLUSION
Whether you need to store data for regulatory compliance, disaster recovery, analytics, or simply serving it on the web, Advanced Computers Cloud Storage has you covered. Call us today 516-285-2224 and find out how our IT services can help resovle your IT problems.
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