Limitations of cloud storage
While cloud storage has numerous benefits, there are some limitations in the areas of performance and new APIs.
Performance
Storage systems have struggled to balance reliability, cost, and performance. Generally, you can get two out of these three aspects. Cloud storage optimizes reliability and cost, but not performance. In fact, as we will see later, reliability in cloud storage is better than the traditional RAID when you reach a large scale. By the way RAID works, you are at a very high risk of getting an unrecoverable failure during a RAID rebuild when operating at-scale. Cloud storage uses different techniques such as replication or erasure coding to provide high reliability.
This means that cloud storage is well ...
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