File Storage - Concepts
Attach
Attaching storage to your Scaleway Instance allows you to use additional or shared storage beyond its Local Storage.
Availability Zone
An Availability Zone refers to an isolated location within a specific region. Each Availability Zone provides its own services and infrastructure. For example, fr-par-1, fr-par-2, and fr-par-3 are Availability Zones within the Paris region.
For an extensive list of which regions and AZ a resource is available in, refer to our Product availability guide.
Block volumes
Block volumes provide network-attached storage you can plug in/out of Instances like a virtual hard drive. From a user's point of view, block volumes behave like regular disks and can be used to increase the storage of an Instance.
File Storage
Scaleway File Storage allows you to keep data in an organized hierarchy of files and folders. This hierarchy can be shared across a network, so multiple compute instances can work on the same collection of files.
File system
A file system provides a structured way to manage files and directories in the cloud, so that Instances can access, read, and write data as if it were on a local disk. File systems can be shared by several Instances.
IOPS
IOPS or Input/Ouptut Operations Per Second, is a unit of measurement that indicates how many read/write operations a storage device is performing per second.
Scaleway File Storage offers two IOPS limits:
- 5 000 IOPS (5K IOPS)
- 15 000 IOPS (15K IOPS)
Mount
Mounting a storage volume allows you you to assign a directory (mount point) to an attached storage volume. The files on that storage become available via the assigned directory. This allows you to read and write files on the storage as if they were part of your local file system.
Region
A region is a geographical area such as France (Paris: fr-par), the Netherlands (Amsterdam: nl-ams), or Poland (Warsaw: pl-waw) in which Scaleway products and resources are located. Each region contains multiple Availability Zones.
For an extensive list of which regions and AZs a resource is available in, refer to our Product availability guide.