Cloud Block Storage Service

A Cloud Block Storage Service is a Cloud service of block data storage.

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• Example(s):
  • AWS Block Storage (EBS).
  • Azure Block Storage.
  • Google Block Storage.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Cloud Object Storage, such as AWS S3.
• See: Cloud Data Storage.

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References

2015

• http://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-management-best-practices/cloud-storage-aws-vs-azure-vs-google-vs-softlayer
  • QUOTE: Object storage is great for the use case it is designed for — that is, storing data as a self-contained “object” for later retrieval. However, if you need a more standard filesystem configuration (and one that is POSIX compliant), then block storage is the appropriate choice.

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