GCS
GCS is the object store offering from GCP. The units of storage are objects, which GCP defines as “immutable pieces of data consisting of a file of any format.” Objects are stored in a container, known as a bucket, and are associated with a project. You can associate additional metadata with these objects. Like every other object store, the primary use case for buckets is to upload and download objects.
Some of the key features of GCS are as follows:
- Highly durable, low-latency storage, with an uptime of up to 99.999%.
- Secured in transit and storage.
- Unlimited storage and no object size limit.
- There is no limit to how many buckets you can create.
- There is a limit on how frequently you can create and delete a bucket. This was introduced to avoid abuse.
- Buckets are globally scoped but their contents are stored in a geographic location.
- Bucket names have to be globally unique – across GCP and not just within your account/organization...
