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Choosing Object, Block or Shared Storage from a Workload's I/O Pattern

This is the synthesis node the whole sub-domain exists to support, and it is exactly the decision a researcher moving an analysis to rented compute has to make first. It is stated as a mapping from measurable I/O properties to a storage class, so it survives any change in product names.

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Choosing Between Block Storage and File Storage in Cloud Computing

Block storage and file storage are the two dominant cloud storage abstractions, distinguished by where the organizing structure lives: block storage exposes raw fixed-size blocks that may be relocate…