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Comparative Analysis of Cloud Storage Options for Diverse Application Requirements

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Cloud Storage is the concept of combining and sharing of storage resources through the Internet. Each cloud service provider (CSP) offers universal data storage services using its geographically distributed datacenters. Businesses and consumers are increasingly reliant on cloud-based storage solutions instead of in-house, on-premises local storage hardware in order to save on initial expenditures to build and maintain the hardware infrastructures. Cloud Storage provides enormous levels of data protection and important data can be restored in case of missing local copies. Selecting the right public cloud provider has become critical to long term business success. Depending on the different business needs and requirements of these storage services, we compare a few of the storage services provided by three market giants like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

    Antara Debnath Antu & Anup Kumar

  2. Department of Computer Science, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY, USA

    Robert Kelley

  3. InfoBeyond Technology LLC, Louisville, KY, USA

    Bin Xie

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Antu, A.D., Kumar, A., Kelley, R., Xie, B. (2022). Comparative Analysis of Cloud Storage Options for Diverse Application Requirements. In: Ye, K., Zhang, LJ. (eds) Cloud Computing – CLOUD 2021. CLOUD 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12989. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96326-2_6

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