Chapter 11: Exploring Storage and Database Options in GCP – Part 1

In the previous two chapters, we learned about important topics regarding networking and compute services. Now, we will continue by looking at another fundamental offering from GCP – storage. Every application needs to store data, but not all data is the same. Data can be structured, unstructured, relational, or transactional, and GCP offers services to meet these requirements. Your application may even need to use multiple storage services to achieve your needs.

In this chapter, we will look at the different types of storage offered by Google and explain what should be considered before selecting a particular service. Google provides numerous storage options and covering all of these in a single chapter may make the facts difficult for you to digest. Therefore, we have divided this chapter into two parts.

In this part, we will consider which storage option we should choose and look into the following...