Flash storage in the cloud from the big cloud providers
Summary
The full benefit of SSD performance requires the use of EBS-optimised EC2 instances where application and storage network traffic are physically isolated, rather than using a shared interface.Microsoft Azure offers file, block, object and scalable storage options (Data Lake and Archive).Confusingly, Microsoft has chosen to use the term “block Blobs” to describe file storage, while typical block I/O volumes are implemented using page Blobs.This type of storage is aimed at applications that need low latency, high performance and read/write at the block level, such as online transaction processing ( OLTP ) databases.Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) allow volume size to be set by the user, whereas Microsoft Azure has fixed increments.