Cloud Storage Tiers and Options Quiz

Azure offers premium, hot, cool, and archive tiers.

Google has three hot options—multiregional storage, regional storage, and nearline storage.

AWS has two primary designations: Simple Storage Service (S3) for hot data and S3 Glacier for warm data.

Google's in-between service is called nearline because it's faster than online storage.

CSPs allow clients to have only one storage container to meet all their needs.

Rehydrating the blob is the term used in AWS to make archived data readable again.

An admin set up a backup for the database without knowing that it was already replicated, causing the company to pay for more storage.

The CSP will always check with the company before billing for extra storage beyond what was actually needed.

Conducting frequent capacity planning and usage analysis is unnecessary when it comes to cloud storage management.

CDNs primarily speed up access to web resources for users in the same location as the original server.

Edge servers in a content delivery network (CDN) are placed in locations far from the users to improve access speed.

The primary content server in a content delivery network (CDN) is referred to as the origin.

In a cross-region load balancing setup, servers in each region likely provide different types of content to users.

A geo-redundant cloud is beneficial for load balancing as it allows requests to be processed by servers in different regions.

Hardware load balancers are no longer used due to the availability of cheaper and more convenient LBaaS offerings from CSPs.

Load balancing in cloud implementations is only possible with physical servers, not virtual ones.

One common load-balancing configuration involves splitting banks of servers to handle specific types of requests.

Cross-region load balancing ensures that all incoming requests are always processed within the same region to avoid delays.

Load balancing with identical servers means that each server performs different tasks to ensure redundancy and fault tolerance.