Google Cloud

Cloud Storage (GCP)

Definition

Google Cloud's object storage service. It stores objects in buckets with 11 nines of durability. Storage classes: Standard, Nearline, Coldline, and Archive, based on access frequency.

Exam context

In CDL it's the equivalent of S3 (AWS) and Azure Blob Storage. Question: object storage on GCP → Cloud Storage. For files accessed monthly → Nearline. For files accessed yearly → Coldline or Archive.

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