How to reduce costs using different tiers

Depending on what we use our cloud storage bucket for, and according to the different use cases reviewed in the previous section, we can select different classes to optimize the costs of our solution. Next, we will review the four options in terms of balancing the availability of the data versus the cost of storage:

Figure 7.3 – Storage classes

Standard

The Standard class is intended for frequent data access use cases, such as the consumption of multimedia data for social networks, web pages, or streaming platforms or other cases where data is stored for short periods as data and analytics ETL pipelines that require intensive consumption and the realization of transformations.

Depending on the specific case, it is possible to configure our cloud storage bucket to make data available regionally (ideal for data processing and analytics cases that are in the same region) or multi-regionally (ideal for cases...