Cloud Storage
Unified Object Storage
Google Cloud Storage is unified object storage for developers and enterprises, from live data serving to data analytics/ML to data archiving.
A Unified Offering for Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage redefines what the industry can expect from online storage by providing a unified offering across the availability spectrum: from live data tapped by today’s most demanding applications, to cloud archival solutions Nearline and Coldline. Featuring a consistent API, latency, and speed across storage classes, learn why Google’s infrastructure is the best online cloud storage for your most critical data.
Optimal Availability for Live Data
From multi-region setups for your applications that need to serve users around the world with the highest availability -- such as video streaming and frequently accessed content like web sites and images -- to regional setups ideal for use cases like analytics and batch processing, Cloud Storage offers the price and availability tailored to your requirements.
Storage and Archiving Redefined
Coldline is designed for cold archiving: data your business expects to touch less than once a year. For warmer storage, choose Nearline: data you expect to access less than once a month, but possibly multiple times throughout the year. Nearline and Coldline storage solutions are available in all current and future GCP regions, and have been designed for no-compromise access latency and throughput speed. GCP’s low latency allows you to access content directly from Nearline or Coldline when the business need arises.
Seamless Data Lifecycle
With a focus on simplicity, Google Cloud Storage offers a unified product offering with consistent access APIs across the entire range of storage classes. New Object lifecycle management feature allows your data to transition seamlessly from one storage class to the next, depending on your business’s cost and availability needs at the time.
Industry Leading Price and Performance
With no minimum fees and a pay-per-use model, Google Cloud Storage leads the industry in cost-effective cloud storage pricing. Store your data on Google's infrastructure with price and availability characteristics tailored to all the different scenarios encountered by developers and enterprises.
Google Grade Security for Business-Critical Assets
From the smallest workgroup to the largest enterprise, your business can rely on Google grade security to protect your most critical documents, media, and unique assets. Your data travels through Google’s private network and is stored on the same infrastructure Google itself relies on, delivering unmatched business continuity for your enterprise.
CLOUD STORAGE FEATURES
A Powerful, Simple and Cost Effective Object Storage Service
Durable
Google Cloud Storage is designed for 99.999999999% annual durability. It stores data redundantly, with automatic checksums to ensure data integrity. With Multi-Regional storage, your data is maintained in geographically distinct locations.
Available
All storage classes offer very high availability. Your data is accessible when you need it. Multi-Regional offers 99.95% and Regional storage offers 99.9% monthly availability in their Service Level Agreement. Nearline and Coldline storage offer 99% monthly availability.
Scalable
Google Cloud Storage is practically infinitely scalable. Whether you're supporting a small application or building a large exabyte-scale system, Cloud Storage can handle it.
Consistent
When a write succeeds, the latest copy of the object is guaranteed to be returned to any GET, globally. This applies to PUTs of new or overwritten objects and DELETEs.
CLOUD STORAGE USE CASES
More than just data storage
Serve rich content
The Multi-Regional Storage class gives you the availability and throughput you need to handle streaming audio or video directly to your users apps or websites.
Analyze existing data
Use Google Cloud Platform to run custom data analytics pipelines. Maintain your data in Cloud Storage and run your analytics with Compute Engine.
Archive cold data
Cloud Storage Nearline provides cheap and easily accessible data archiving. Your archived data is immediately accessible whenever you need access to it. Alternatively, you can use Cloudcast for backing-up and archiving your data.
Build your Mobile Apps
Use the Firebase SDKs for Cloud Storage to securely upload and download content directly from mobile apps and websites.
Host your Website
Easily host and serve the static assets to your website in a Multi-Regional Storage bucket. Your static pages can include client-side technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Make your data work for you
With your data stored in Cloud Storage, you can easily run powerful tools such as Cloud Machine Learning or BigQuery on top of it.
Upload your data
Cloud Storage provides many ways to bring your data to the cloud.Drag-n-drop your data with the Google Cloud Platform Console, use the gsutil command-line tool, or interface with the JSON API in your preferred language.