C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Projects Using Azure - Second Edition
by Paul Michaels, Dirk Strauss, Jas Rademeyer
Hot and cold storage
Typically, cloud providers offer the concept of storage, which is optimized for reading or optimized for writing. Although we've set our storage model to hot here, it may be that this particular model suits cold storage better; that is, it costs more to read and write the data, but costs less for the actual storage. Hot storage is the opposite: it costs more for the storage, but less to access the information.
Some cloud providers (including Microsoft) offer a tier that's similar to cold but even more optimized for storage: this is the type of storage you might use for backups or files that you expect won't need to be retrieved at all.
For an application such as ours, you might find it useful to use hot for the development ...
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