Introduction
Google Cloud Storage offers world-wide, extremely reliable storage of objects that amount to data exabytes. You can immediately access data from any storage class. Then incorporate storage into your applications with a single API. Therefore, optimize price and performance effortlessly.
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Storage Class
Storage classes define the availability and pricing model that applies to data stored in the Cloud Storage.
Standard Storage
Standard Storage is ideally suited for data that is regularly accessed (“hot” data) and/or stored for a limited period of time only. When used in a region, Standard Storage is also suitable for storing data at the same location as Google Kubernetes Engine clusters or Compute Engine instances that use the data. Co-locating the services maximizes data-intensive computing efficiency can also reduce network charges.
Availability
Nearline Storage
It is a low-cost, highly reliable storage service for infrequently accessed data storage. Nearline Storage is a better option than Standard Storage in situations where slightly lower capacity, a minimum storage time of 30 days and access costs are reasonable trade-offs for reduced storage costs.
Nearline Storage is also suitable for data that you expect to read or change on average once a month or less. For example, if you want to continually attach files to Cloud Storage and expect to view them once a month for review, Nearline Storage is a great option.
Availability
Coldline Storage
Coldline Storage is a relatively low-cost, highly reliable storage service for infrequently accessed data.Coldline Storage is a better option than Standard Storage or Nearline Storage in situations where slightly lower capacity, 90-day minimum storage period, and furthermore higher data access costs are reasonable trade-offs for reduced storage costs.
Availability
Archive Storage
Archive Storage is the lowest-cost, highly reliable data archiving, online backup, and disaster recovery storage service. By comparison to the “coldest” storage services provided by other cloud providers, the data is available within milliseconds, not hours or days.
Availability
Pricing
Cloud Storage pricing is dependent on what you use, including the volume of data you store, the length of time you store it, the number of operations you conduct on your data, and the network services you use as you transfer or access your data. For “cold” storage classes intended to store long-term, infrequently accessed data, there are also charges for data retention and early data deletion. Cloud Storage pricing is based on the these components:
- Data storage: storing data in buckets.
- Network usage: accessing and moving data in buckets.
- Operations usage: performing actions within Cloud Storage.
- Retrieval and early deletion fees: applicable for data stored in the Nearline Storage, Coldline Storage, and Archive Storage classes.
Google Storage Always Free Usage Limit
Google Cloud Free Tier, Cloud Storage offers services that are free to use under defined limits. Such limitations of use are valid both during and after the free trial period. Google Cloud Storage One Stop Solution For All Your Cloud Storage Needs. When you are no longer in the free trial phase, usage outside these Always Free Limits is paid according to the pricing tables below.
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How to access the Google storage by Using API?
You can run the following commands using the Cloud SDK on your local machine, or in Cloud Shell.
- Create the service account. Replace [NAME] with a name for the service account.
- Grant permissions to the service account. Replace [PROJECT_ID] with your project ID.
- Generate the key file. Replace [FILE_NAME] with a name for the key file.
Some Use Cases
Integrated repository for analytics and machine learning
The highest degree of availability and efficiency in a single region is optimal for computation, analytics and ML workloads in a given area. Cloud Computing is also extremely reliable, giving you faith anda consistency in the workload of analytics.
Media content storage and delivery
Geo-redundant storage with the highest degree of availability and efficiency is suitable for low-latency, high-QPS applications for consumers across geographic regions. Cloud Storage includes the flexibility and capacity required to stream audio or video directly to applications or websites.
Backups and archives
Cloud Storage offers easy, low-cost, highly durable storage of data accessed less than once a month. Good for reducing the expense of backups and also archives while ensuring instant access. Backup data in Cloud Storage can also be used for more than just backup as all storage types have ms latency and are accessible by a single API.
Conclusion
Google cloud storage is one stop solution for all your cloud storage needs and some major key noteworthy points are:
- Storage class for any workload.
- Location type for different redundancy and performance needs.
- Object life-cycle management.
- Object versioning.
- Customer managed encryption.
- Cloud audit logs with cloud storage.
Even for the google cloud free tier , google compute engine and also load balancing you can relate to the previous blogs and in the next blog’s we’re moving a lot deeper into cloud computing and storage.
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