How to: File storage
File storage is a solution to store data as files and present it to its final users as a hierarchical directories structure. The main advantage is to provide a user-friendly solution to store and retrieve files. To locate a file in file storage, the complete path of the file is required. It is economical and easily structured and is usually found on hard drives, which means that they appear exactly the same for the user and on the hard drive.

Example: [Amazon EFS](https://aws.amazon.com/efs), [Azure files](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/storage/files), [Google Cloud Filestore](https://cloud.google.com/filestore), etc.