Updated Cloud Tier (markdown)

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## Motivation
Cloud storage is an ideal place to backup warm data. Its storage is scalable, and cost is usually low compared to on-premise storage servers. Uploading to the cloud is usually free. However, usually the cloud storage access is not free and slow.
SeaweedFS is fast. However, it is limited by available number of volume servers.
SeaweedFS is fast. However, its capacity is limited by available number of volume servers.
One good way is to combine SeaweedFS' fast local access speed with the cloud storage's elastic capacity.