Chapter 5: Choosing the Right Database and Storage

Now that you've chosen your compute option, it's time to move on to the next decision: choosing the right database and storage for your cloud application.

Google Cloud's world of managed services is huge, and their library of database and storage options is very diverse as well. To put this in numbers, the Google Cloud ecosystem has well over 100 services and tools for nearly all aspects of cloud software development, and more than a dozen of these are dedicated solely to storage and databases. The goal behind such a large range of options is to give developers more customizability and agility. More importantly, developers are not required to choose a single service and stick with it—rather, they can choose multiple storage and database options together to meet their application's requirements; in fact, this is common practice.

To new developers who are diving straight into cloud computing, data storage...