You have probably seen (or even been to) your company's data center. If not, chances are you have looked at photos of one from a major company like Facebook or Google. Why bring this up? Because when some folks think about the word 'database,' images of rows upon rows of servers holding data come to mind. Others think of the cloud, with zettabytes of data stored in rows, columns and tables.

Azure Storage is a cloud-based service that provides scalable, secure and highly available data storage solutions for applications running in the cloud. It offers different types of storage options like Blob storage, Queue storage, Table storage and File storage. Blob storage is used to store unstructured data like images, videos, audios and documents while Queue storage helps in building scalable applications with loosely coupled architecture.

The Open System Interconnection model (OSI Model) is a foundational concept that shapes how we build digital environments. The OSI Model is a conceptual framework that describes how different computer systems communicate with each other inside network or cloud/internet environments. Today, let’s look at how the OSI Model affects our digital lives, applications and networks.

Public cloud environments are heavily instrumented and can give you metrics on practically any level of the infrastructure. AWS is no exception. Metrics are not only useful for monitoring and troubleshooting issues in a cloud environment - they can also be tied directly to automated actions. So you can leverage them to remediate issues instantly, as they happen.