Storage solutions

There are a number of storage solutions available on Compute Engine, including boot disks, persistent disks, local SSDs, and external storage solutions such as Cloud Storage and managed databases. Each of these solutions serve to fulfil different needs, and each solution has a number of caveats and limitations.

Persistent disks

When working in cloud environments such as Compute Engine, there are several considerations that need to be made when it comes to disk storage. Virtual machines may be easily recreated, but that isn't always the case with data. To provide the same level of flexibility and availability for storage that Google brings to VMs, Compute Engine offers persistent disks as a block storage...