Cloud - Technology
Block storage
Storage presented to a computer as raw disk space that it can organise itself
What's it for?
Provides storage that behaves like a computer's own disk, making it useful for systems that need direct and reliable access to stored data.
For example…
A database server gets a fast block volume so customer orders stay snappy during peak hours
A company gives a virtual computer an extra 500 GB of block storage, which appears to the computer like an additional hard drive
Think of it like…
Blank notebooks you give to one writer: they decide the chapters; others do not browse the pages directly