The service is built on top of Windows server. So, it provides a fully compatible Windows file system, and we manage that fully for customers.

We run the rule over file, block and object storage from the big three public cloud providers: AWS, Azure and GCP. We look at what’s on offer and the use cases they are aimed at.

If you want more than the basic file storage offered by GCP, NetApp Cloud Volumes are also available. This is NFS and SMB-connected for Linux and Windows application workloads.

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You’ll find SMB file storage on Azure, but elsewhere in the cloud file storage is much more likely to support NFS. Performance for cloud-based file storage is tricky.

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If you can increase the amount of file servers used to service the VDI cluster, then "Windows Scale-Out File Server for application data" would be Microsofts answer to that.

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Cloud storage managers let you treat your online storage as local so you can perform operations from within Windows Explorer -- including backup and sync.