1. How reliable are they? How long will they continue?
2. Security of your data
3. Price
4. Performance
When it comes to No.1 point of reliability and continuity of cloud provider, you should aware what’s going on in the community. There are lot of companies offer could storage include almost all major mobile phone manufactures. The most recent incident as now (2021/05) is with Samsung. Samsung have closed down their cloud and moved all the data to Microsoft One drive which you do not have any control. They initiated the closedown in two stages where western part of the users in the word were migrated in March, 2021 then remaining were migrated on May, 2021.
Therefore, don’t trust a could storage provider just because they tell they are a cloud storage provide. Otherwise, once you have moved the data in to the cloud, it will not last for long and you may lose your data or will have to pay unexpected fees which you didn’t plan.
There are only 4 major long-lasting payers in the market as of 2021. They are Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud. They have multiple datacenters around the globe and listed in leaders quadrant in Gartner report (2020).
When it comes to No.2 point of Security of the data, there are concerns regarding data privacy. End of the day, data in the cloud means your data is stored in someone’s datacenter. Therefore, privacy, encryptions and secure data access are highly important. Most of them offer secure communication mechanisms that you should configure, high level encryption (you may need to enable) but less data privacy in datacenter in China region. All major cloud players have separate datacenters or isolated datacenters for china region due to government regulations where you have less privacy of your data. Therefore, before pumping your data to Alibaba cloud, do your own research.
When it comes to No.3 point of price, there are big difference. Also, you should know the facts that some of famous cloud provides are not in the enterprise segment. For example, Google could not fall under enterprise segment. Also, Microsoft Azure currently certified for most of compliance bodies with compare with AWS.
Therefore, for a large enterprise, Azure would be more suited to comply with audits and to gain compliance certification for them. As of now, Azure offers more than 90 compliance offerings.
When it comes to SMB, direct cost matters the most. For instance, 1 TB (S3) space of AWS cost around USD $23 and Azure (GP2 Block or File) cost around USD 125 per month. However, to mount a simple file share to your computer, Azure is very simple to configure. On the other hand, the AWS is more complicated for windows users (For Linux, it is easy) where a virtual appliance need to be deployed (AWS File Gateway) in your premises and you should have VMware and Hyper-V running on your local environment.
However, for an individual, current free offering from cloud provides as follows.
• Google Drive – 15GB Free
• Microsoft One Drive – 5GB Free (If you have office 365, then you’ll get 1TB One drive space)
• Amazon Drive - Unlimited photos, 5 GB video (Only Prime members are eligible)
When it comes to No.3 point of performance, there is always a lag since you’re accessing your data over the internet. Most frequent data will be cached to your local computer in cloud drives (One Drive, Google Drive, Amazon Drive). But it is not possible to see the preview of photos unless if it is frequently access and cached. Also, to play a video stored in the could drive takes time since it need to download the file first.
Best of Both World.
To overcome above lag issue and get the benefit of cloud, some home and small business NAS (Network Attached Storage) providers have came up with a solution. Most specifically, QNAP offers multiple options to this problem. It will cache all your data locally or most of your data locally which eliminate the lag issue. Since your data is replicated to the could, data is safe even if your local NAS got destroyed. Also, QNAP support most famous cloud provides including Azure, AWS, Google and more. With this simple solution, it is possible to eliminate real life problems of cloud as well as you can gain the flexibility and data safety of cloud with a cheapest possible reliable could provider.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-named-a-leader-in-gartner-s-2020-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-dbms-platforms/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/compliance/
https://www.qnap.com/en/software/vjbod-cloud
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