Robust, high-performing, and scalable storage in the cloud is essential for deploying a database system, where the reliable storage and retrieval of data across hundreds or thousands of concurrent client connections is paramount.

Large organizations rely on their databases to be the permanent system of record for all business transactions, which means that the data they contain must survive localized server and disk failures, as well as a site-wide failure necessitating disaster recovery.

As data volumes grow, database administrators require the flexibility to quickly scale up both the size and performance of database storage volumes to meet demand.