Cloud storage 101: We run the rule over file, block and object storage from the big three public cloud providers: AWS, Azure and GCP. We look at what’s on offer and the use cases they are aimed at.

SSD storage is most appropriate for situations that work with smaller data blocks. This would be in cases where you have high transactional activity, as with databases, or possibly with boot ...

AWS recently introduced the EC2 I4i instance type for data-intensive storage and IO-heavy workloads requiring fast access to medium-sized datasets. The new instances can benefit high-performance real- ...

“Is4gen instances are a great fit for applications that do large amounts of random I/O to large amounts of SSD storage,” AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr wrote in an AWS blog on Tuesday. “This includes ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) pioneered mass market, large-scale and cost-effective cloud storage when it entered the market back in 2006. The hyperscaler’s Simple Storage Service (S3) set out to ...

HPC in the Cloud got a boost this week with this announcement of two updates to the Amazon EC2 instance family. EC2 Bare Metal instances provide customers’ applications with direct access to the ...

AWS’s general purpose SSD offers 10,000 IOPS, ... AWS’s cool storage service, named S3 Infrequent Access (IA) is $0.0125 and its cold storage/archival service Glacier costs $0.004.

AWS’s High I/O Quadruple Extra Large instance in…EC2 includes 2TB of local SSD. … [Amazon] says it can achieve…120,000 random read [and] 85,000 write IOPS. …it’s aimed at NoSQL ...

AWS said the new storage class is priced 85 percent lower than the existing SSD storage class and 20 percent lower than traditional HDD-based deployments on-premises, and brings full elasticity ...

AWS' S3 online storage service turns 15 years old and now stores over 100 trillion objects. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer March 15, 2021 at 7:29 a.m. PT.