Cloud Storage
The unstructured data storage by GCP. Often used to store files, historical backup data, and archives.
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In this lesson, we will learn about Cloud Storage. This is one of the widely used storage services of GCP.
Introduction
Cloud storage is non-structured data storage. If your data is structured then you should look for other storage options. Cloud storage is object-based or blob-based storage. Meaning everything stored in it is considered as an object. It is a highly available and durable storage option.
Properties
Cloud storage has something called a “Bucket” to store the objects in it. Keep these points in mind while working with Cloud Storage.
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A bucket is flat storage. This means there are no folders or subfolders. However, GCP imitates folders using
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The bucket name should be a universally unique name.
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The object is immutable. So, there is no update, truncate, or append for an object. However, you can override it.
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Every object has some metadata stored about it. Metadata is key-value pair having some information about the object.
Storage classes
Storage classes are kind of categories based on the object access ...