Cloud storage infrastructure is the distributed system of servers, object and block stores, replication, and access APIs that lets applications persist and retrieve data on demand over a network. It provides durability through redundancy, elastic capacity, and tiered performance classes ranging from hot object storage to cold archives. It matters because it is the foundation for storing large media assets, such as meeting recordings, at scale with high availability and pay-as-you-go economics.
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- Object stores such as S3-compatible systems partition and replicate data across availability zones for durability, exposing lifecycle policies that migrate aging data to cheaper tiers. For media workloads, the infrastructure pairs with content-delivery and transcoding pipelines to ingest, store, and stream large recordings cost-effectively.