Storage services
Our cloud storage services offer a scalable, security-rich, and cost-effective home for your data, and support for traditional and cloud-native workloads. Provision and deploy services such as Object, Block, and File Storage. Adjust capacity and optimize performance as requirements change. Pay only for the cloud storage that you need.
Current Infrastructure
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Block Storage for VPC | Persistent, high-performance data storage for virtual server instances in the IBM Cloud® Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The VPC infrastructure provides rapid scaling across multiple regions and zones, and extra performance and security. |
| IBM Cloud® File Storage for VPC | A zonal file storage offering that provides NFS-based file storage services. You can create file shares in an availability zone within a region. You can share them with multiple virtual server instances within the same zone or other zones in your region, across multiple VPCs. You can share your NFS-based file storage across accounts and external services, such as IBM watsonX. You can also limit access to a file share to a specific virtual server instance within a VPC by using Security groups, and encrypt the data in transit. Compatible with Virtual Servers for VPC and Bare Metal Servers for VPC. |
| IBM Cloud Object Storage | Distributed, multi-tenant Cloud Object Storage for data encrypted and dispersed across multiple geographic locations, which are accessed over HTTP by using a REST API. This service uses the distributed storage technologies that are provided by the IBM Cloud Object Storage System. |
Classic infrastructure
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Block Storage for Classic | Persistent, high-performance iSCSI storage that is provisioned and managed independently of Compute instances. iSCSI-based Block Storage for Classic LUNs are connected to authorized devices through redundant multi-path I/O (MPIO) connections. |
| File Storage for Classic | Persistent, fast, and flexible network-attached, NFS-based File Storage for Classic. In this network-attached storage (NAS) environment, you have total control over your file shares function and performance. File Storage for Classic shares can be connected to up to 64 authorized devices over routed TCP/IP connections for resiliency. |
| IBM Cloud® Backup for Classic | An automated agent-based backup system that is managed through a browser-based management utility. You can back up data between servers in one or more data centers on the IBM Cloud® network. |
Next steps
To continue, see Managing your infrastructure.