Review of GCP Storage Options

Choosing a Storage Solution

  • Cloud Storage
    • Unstructured data
    • Archived data
    • Temporary data between service
    • Web accessible
  • Relational storage:
    • For structured data
    • Cloud SQL
      • Regional
      • Up tp 10TB
    • Cloud Spanner
      • Global
  • NoSQL storage
    • Semi-strucuted data
    • Datastore
      • JSON data
    • Bigtable
      • Petabyte scale
      • Low latency & analytics

Storage System Exam Tips

  • Three kinds of storage
    • Object storage (Cloud Storage)
    • Persistent disks/ block storage (for VMs)
    • Managed databases
  • Cloud Storage
    • Regional, multi-regional, nearline, coldline
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