Cloud Storage for object storage and retrieval
Our applications or services often need to store data files, and this can be a common source of headaches when our users are in different parts of the world. Luckily for us, Google Cloud has an ace in the hole to make our lives easier.
Introducing Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage is a managed service that allows us to store any amount of unstructured data and retrieve it as often as we like. Combine this with dual-region storage, turbo replication, automatic class assignment, and life cycle management, and this service can help us integrate advanced storage capabilities into our application while enormously simplifying our development cycle.
Cloud Storage stores immutable pieces of data, called objects, each of which can contain a file of any kind. We can organize our files in directories, and all of these are stored in buckets, which are containers associated with a Google Cloud project. Note that directories are just logical organization...
