Cloud-managed IT generally always involves storing data in the cloud. In this course, you will study how to allocate storage in a cloud environment. Next, review cloud storage protocols and tiers, and their efficiencies. Then, examine cloud storage object provisioning types and how to work with cloud storage redundancy and security mechanisms. As a scenario exercise, you will choose an optimal cloud configuration for a hypothetical company with data centers in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, that would like to deploy a new order-entry web service in the cloud.