Different real-world use cases for cloud storage

Cloud storage is a fully self-managed unstructured data storage solution within Google Cloud, allowing an unlimited amount of information to be stored in different parts of the world with low latency and high durability.

In the following sections, we will identify some of the different use cases for which we can use Google's cloud storage service.

Worldwide delivery

Any application that displays multimedia content to its users, such as social networks, web pages, or streaming platforms, needs a place to store the content that it shows to its users, such as its images, videos, or documents. This content needs to be consumed regularly, be available in different regions, and have the minimum latency between its source of origin and the consumer:

Figure 7.1 – Worldwide delivery

Analytics

Data analytics solutions require the constant consumption of high volumes of data by extraction, transformation...