Static data such as YouTube videos, thumbnails on Instagram, or the high-quality product images you find on Amazon (the ones that you zoom into while hovering) are perfect for use in buckets.
Like AWS and Microsoft Azure, GCP has a pretty wide range of storage options and knowing when to use which is important; both from the point of view of actual practical use, and if you'd like to clear the GCP certifications. So do pay attention to this table:
|
Use Case |
GCP's Offering |
Approximate Non-GCP Equivalents |
|
Block storage |
GCE Persistent Disks |
NAS (Network attached storage), AWS Elastic Block Storage |
|
Blob/object storage |
Cloud Storage |
AWS S3 buckets (and Glacier), HDFS |
|
Relational data–small, regional payloads |
Cloud SQL |
MySQL, PostgreSQL; AWS RDS |
|
Relational data–large, global payloads | ...
