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Cloud Storage - Google Cloud Platform Tutorial
From the course: Data Warehousing on Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Storage
- [Instructor] Cloud Storage is Google Cloud's object storage system. It allows users to store large volumes of data in binary or file objects. Each object is stored in a bucket, which is similar to a file directory in a file-based system. However, Cloud Storage isn't a file system. Cloud Storage is a service that helps us store and access objects from a distributed storage system. Users and service accounts can be granted access to read and write objects to a bucket. Each object is treated as a single unit of data, and it cannot be partially updated within Cloud Storage. It must be retrieved, updated outside of the storage, then written or updated back to the bucket. Good examples of data that can be uploaded to Cloud Storage are text files, image, and audio files, and PDF documents. The advantage to Cloud Storage is its high availability, as you can store it across multiple regions for faster access. You can also develop lifestyle management policies to move objects to different…
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