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hot_cold_storage

Feature	🔥 Hot Storage	❄️ Cold Storage
Purpose	Frequent, fast access	Infrequent, archival access
Access speed	Very fast (ms to sec)	Slower (minutes to hours)
Cost	Higher storage cost	Much cheaper per GB
Use cases	Active data, real-time apps, dashboards	Backups, historical logs, compliance data
Examples (Cloud)	Amazon S3 Standard, Google Cloud Storage Standard	Amazon Glacier, Google Coldline/Archive
Durability	Usually same (11 9s, etc.)	Same durability, but slower retrieval
Availability (SLA)	Higher	Lower

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