From the course: Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) Cert Prep
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Cloud storage
From the course: Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) Cert Prep
Cloud storage
- [Instructor] The data security domain accounts for five questions on the CCSK exam. To properly understand data security, it's helpful to have a solid understanding of how data is stored. Object and volume storage are the two primary types of cloud storage. These two types of storage enable a wide range of options and services. Long before the cloud, a volume has been a logical representation of a physical disk attached to a computer. The representation is the same in the cloud, but the physical disk's logical structure is going to be associated on a per-VM basis. Here's an example of the choice presented to you when you launch an instance or virtual machine in AWS. You can accept the default size and type of solid-state drive or hard disk drive or configure your own size and type. Block storage operates by dividing data into fixed size blocks and storing them as separate units. Block sizes can vary from a few kilobytes to several megabytes and can be predetermined during the…
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