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title: Cloud Storage
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## STORAGE AS A SERVICE (STaaS)
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When you use cloud storage, that is STaaS. In this case, a cloud system gives you the ability to store data online and acesss it as if it was local.
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The Cloud system should have the capability of Storage Scaling.
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We can integrate all storage. For example, if we have multiple pen-drives then we can integrate all pen-drive storages in a single one.
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There are mainly two types of storage
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1. Object
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2. Block
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### Object Storage
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- We can not a make partition in cloud storage. We can only store files and folders there. This is called object storage. We can’t install OS there as there are no partitions.
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- **Example**
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- Google drive (google compute engine, GCE), OneDrive, drop box, Microsoft azure.
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- Amazon has its own cloud service AWS. S3(Simple Storage Service, SSS) is the product of amazon that provides StAAS. It’s a public cloud. Anyone can use their services.
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- OpenStack is the biggest private cloud. OpenStack has product swift (Object Storage).
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### Block Storage
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- If we’re able to make partitions in provided storage, then we can install OS. We have a hard-disk and we can make partitions in them, this type of storage is known as block storage.
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- **Example**
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- Block storage service of AWS – EBS (Elastic Block Storage)
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- Cloud provides facility of scaling storage that’s the elastic property of cloud.
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- Block storage of OpenStack – Cinder
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