Are you looking for a tutorial on Cloud Storage? But you might get confused on selecting a cloud platform for you. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently the market leader but Microsoft Azure is on second position and growing at the fastest pace. Both of these cloud platforms provide a ton of tools and services in various domains from Cloud Database to Analytics, from Machine Learning to Data Science, from DevOps and Cyber Security to Mobile Development and much more. But the core of all of the cloud based applications rests in the Massively Scalable, Elastic and Cost-effective Cloud Storage.

In this course you will learn all of the cloud storage services on AWS and Cloud storage on Microsoft Azure, that can be classified into various categories based on their features and application domain. This is a beginner level course, where you will learn everything right from the basics, but will gradually move to the advanced concepts. If you are pursuing any kind of Cloud Certifications, this course can help you build a complete understanding over Cloud Storage, that holds a significant weightage on all major Certification exams. Although the learning goal of this course is focused primarily over Cloud storage, but you will also learn how you can integrate storage with other cloud services to deliver a complete solution.

What is cloud storage?

When you have any kind of file or files kept on the cloud, it is generally stored in some of the storage medium. Cloud computing platforms such as AWS and Microsoft azure provides a variety of cloud storage that can be used for a wide range of applications and services.

What are types of cloud storage?

There are primarily many types of storage on cloud. Block storage is one of the basic one, it stores files in a logical bucket. Amazon S3 is a kind of block storage. There is types of File storage on cloud that functions as a traditional filesystem ecosystem where we have files and folders arranged in hierarchy. There are other storage types as well such as Disk, table, queue etc.

You will be learning about Cloud storage services on Microsoft Azure in the earlier sections, followed by Storage options on Amazon Web Services. You will be learning the following services throughout this course:

Storage services on Microsoft Azure:

• Blob

• Disk

• File

• Table

• Queue

• Data Lake

• StorSimple

• Backup

• Archive

  
  

Storage services on AWS:

• Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

• Storage Gateway

• EFS (Elastic File System)

• Glacier

• EBS (Elastic Block Storage)