When buying cloud storage from a provider, there are several key considerations to keep in mind:
- Security: Ensure that the provider offers robust security measures such as encryption, authentication, and access controls to protect your data.
- Data governance: Make sure the provider can help you comply with any data governance requirements, such as data retention policies, data sovereignty, and compliance with regulations.
- Data access and retrieval: Evaluate the provider’s data access and retrieval capabilities, such as the ability to quickly retrieve data, the cost of data retrieval and the ability to move data between different regions.
- Scalability: Ensure that the provider can scale storage resources up or down as needed, and that they can handle sudden increases in data volume.
- Reliability: Ensure that the provider can guarantee a certain level of data availability and that they have a disaster recovery plan in place.
- Cost: Compare the costs of different providers and storage options, such as the cost of storage, data retrieval, and data transfer.
- Integration: Evaluate the provider’s ability to integrate with your existing systems and tools, such as data analytics, backup, and archiving.
- Support: Evaluate the quality and availability of the provider’s support, to ensure that you can get the help you need when you need it.
- Performance: Evaluate the provider’s performance in terms of data transfer speeds, and the time it takes to access your data.
- Transparency: Assess the level of transparency provided by the provider, in terms of what data is being stored, where and how it’s being stored, and who has access to it.
By considering these factors, you can choose a cloud storage provider that meets your organization’s specific needs and requirements, and that can help you to effectively store, manage, and retrieve your data in the cloud.
Storage is one of the main categories of the Cloud Native Landscape.
