Cloud//storage

Data persistence managed by a cloud provider. Unlike physical storage (HDDs, SSDs, flash), you don't manage the hardware. The provider handles replication, durability, backups, and scaling.

Data persistence managed by a cloud provider. Unlike physical storage (HDDs, SSDs, flash), you don't manage the hardware. The provider handles replication, durability, backups, and scaling.

Two main categories: object storage (buckets -- files/blobs accessed by key) and managed databases (SQL/NoSQL engines run by the provider)

You interact via APIs, not block devices