The CNCF Storage Landscape Whitepaper (Version 3) establishes a standardized taxonomy and evaluates the architecture, data protection, and orchestration of cloud-native storage systems. It breaks down storage solutions by their foundational attributes (such as availability, performance, consistency, and durability), underlying topologies and data services, and access interfaces spanning block stores, file systems, object storage, key-value stores, databases, and streaming/messaging platforms. Finally, it details how modern container orchestrators manage these resources through standardized control-plane frameworks like the Container Storage Interface (CSI) and Container Object Storage Interface (COSI).