Cloud Storage Considerations

Storing data necessitates considering storage costs, download bandwidth, and access speed. Object storage, or blob storage, offers a versatile solution for managing various file types and sizes, including large files like software downloads, log files, and user data backups.

Data Storage Costs: "Storing data can be confusing and expensive. You have to consider a couple things. You have to consider the cost of storing that data."

Bandwidth: "[Y]ou have to consider the bandwidth of people downloading it."

Access Speed: "And you also have to consider how quickly do you need it."

Object/Blob Storage: "So all of the ones we're going to be talking about today are what are called object storage or blob storage. And essentially what that means is it's a spot to put files."

Use Cases: "So things like big zips software downloads, uh, log files, images, videos, user data backups, all of those types of things are often not part of your application, but you put them on a cloud storage provider because they, it would be expensive."

Storing large files or frequently accessed data locally can be expensive, making cloud storage providers an attractive alternative. Factors to consider include the type of data, its size, how often it's accessed, and the cost of storage and bandwidth.