Now that we have discovered what the basic services are, let's see how these can be extended to allow more advanced configurations. There are three types of premium services available: network access, storage, and support options.
It is quite obvious that the amount of storage provided with the virtual machine instance is not sufficient for our needs. We have the option to append the virtual machine instances with additional storage, which will remain until it is manually deleted, using block storage.
Block storage, also called persistent storage, is ideal for applications with higher I/O requirements such as database files. Block storage is available in eight unit sizes: 60 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB, 4 TB, 8 TB, and 10 TB.
The usage charge is based on the number of gigabytes (GBs) ordered in each persistent storage block, independent of the actual used GBs, and the number of storage I/O access requests.
Interestingly, the images in the private...