There are many storage solutions that cloud services use to support their customers. Understanding the available storage solutions is important so that you can apply the appropriate security controls to the cloud service:
- IaaS: In this model, your service provider will be provisioning storage resources that support your overall cloud infrastructure. Storage resources will be allocated to virtualized hosts and, in most cases, presented to operating systems as file systems. IaaS storage types include:
- Object storage: API or web-based file storage. Examples include Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure.
- Volume storage: Acts physical hard drives and will attach to virtualization host software such as VMware or Linux kernel-based virtual ...