Data Storage

Data storage in the cloud has become very common, not just for personal usage but also for business, computational, and application purposes as well. On the personal side, cloud storage is provided by well-known companies, ranging from a free usage tier of a few Gigabytes (GBs), to pay monthly or yearly plans for Terabytes (TBs) of data. These services are well integrated with applications on mobile devices, enabling users to store thousands of pictures, videos, songs, and other types of files.

For applications requiring high-performance computations, cloud data storage plays an even bigger role. For example, training Machine Learning (ML) models over large datasets generally requires algorithms to run in a distributed fashion. If data is stored on the cloud, then it makes it much easier and more efficient for the ML platform to partition the data stored in the cloud and make these separate partitions available to the distributed components of the model training job...