The Cloud has become an important destination for storing both personal data and business data. Depending upon the importance and the secrecy requirements of the data, organizations have started using the Cloud to store their vital datasets.
The following diagram tries to summarize the various access patterns of typical enterprises and how they leverage the Cloud to store their data:
Cloud providers offer different varieties of storage. Let's take a look at what these types are:
- Block storage
- File-based storage
- Encrypted storage
- Offline storage
