Cloud computing databases

- Now that we have covered storage and compute, which are considered more primitive cloud services, we can look at higher level services including cloud databases. Keep in mind that databases leverage board compute and storage, which the database needs to do its job. A database is a system that can store, manage, and retrieve data using structured mechanisms. It leverages more primitive storage services, such as object and block storage, to store the data. However, it still manages the design, deployment, and interaction with the data. Cloud database functionality examples include defining a customer database to store customer data from an inventory system using Oracle that's running on Azure, finding patterns in massive amounts of data running on an object database, such as DynamoDB running on AWS, creating a simple database to store sales transactions for a small business. Databases in the cloud are core to most applications and cloud computing use cases since everything must store…