Handling Large Blobs easy
What is the standard cloud solution for storing petabytes of unstructured files (images, logs, backups)?
- A Redis
- B Memcached
- C RabbitMQ
- D Object Storage (e.g., AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage)
Answer: D. Object Storage (e.g., AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage)
Object storage is highly durable, cheap, and scalable via HTTP API. It does not support complex SQL queries but excels at GET/PUT of files.
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