When customers purchase cloud storage from a service provider, they turn over most aspects of the data storage to the vendor, including capacity, security, data availability, storage servers and computing resources, and network data delivery.
Cloud storage is delivered by a cloud services provider that owns and operates data storage capacity by maintaining large datacenters in multiple locations around the world. Cloud storage providers manage capacity, security, and durability to make data accessible to your applications over the internet in a pay-as-you-go model. Typically, you connect to the storage cloud either through the internet or through a dedicated private connection, using a web portal, website, or a mobile app. When customers purchase cloud storage from a service provider, they turn over most aspects of the data storage to the vendor, including capacity, security, data availability, storage servers and computing resources, and network data delivery. Your applications access cloud storage through traditional storage protocols or directly using an application programming interface (API). The cloud storage provider might also offer services designed to help collect, manage, secure, and analyze data at a massive scale.