In short
Storage that attaches to a single VM like a traditional hard drive, offering low-latency, high-performance access — used for a VM's operating system disk and any application requiring fast, direct storage access.
How to learn this
- 1Attach a block storage volume to a VM and format/mount it.
- 2Learn the difference between block storage's single-VM attachment and object storage's broad accessibility.
- 3Understand why databases typically use block storage rather than object storage directly.
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