Before block storage in the cloud, when businesses needed to provision large amounts of storage – for server data, for example – they’d need to requisition and pay for huge server instances, even if the capacity and compute power far exceeded their needs. 

Organizations now buy storage in “blocks” to exactly fit their needs, regardless of the size of their cloud server. The old way, when after you bought a server you would need to upgrade the entire system if you wanted to add more hard drive space, is over. Now you can just buy space as you go.

But which type of block storage is best for your business? That depends on what type of data you need to store and how frequently and easily you need to access that data. 

There are two options for cloud block storage depending on what type of information you need to store. Standard …