Abstract: Providing storage tailored for a storage consuming application, including: identifying, for an application that utilizes storage resources within a cloud-based storage system, one or more storage performance characteristics associated with the application; comparing the storage performance characteristics of the application that were identified with storage performance characteristics of storage resources of one or more cloud-based storage systems; and selecting, based on the comparing, one or more storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems to provide storage services to the application.

Abstract: Providing application-specific storage by a cloud-based storage system, including: identifying, for an application that utilizes resources within the cloud-based storage system, one or more characteristics associated with the application; and selecting, in dependence upon the one or more characteristics associated with the application and characteristics of resources within the cloud-based storage system, one or more resources within the cloud-based storage system to support the execution of the application, wherein at least a portion of a dataset associated with the application is stored as blocks within block storage resources in the cloud-based storage system and also stored as objects within object storage resources in the cloud-based storage system.