Cloud Storage (2024)

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With features like Object Lifecycle Management (OLM) and Autoclass you can easily optimize costs with object placement across storage classes. You can enable, at the bucket level, policy-based automatic object movement to colder storage classes based on the last access time. There are no early deletion or retrieval fees, nor class transition charges for object access in colder storage classes.

Industry leading dual-region buckets support an expansive number of regions. A single, continental-scale bucket offers nine regions across three continents, providing a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of zero. In the event of an outage, applications seamlessly access the data in the alternate region. There is no failover and failback process. For organizations requiring ultra availability, turbo replication with dual-region buckets offers a 15 minute Recovery Point Objective (RPO) SLA.

Cloud Storage is a common choice for storing training data, models, and checkpoints for machine learning projects in Cloud Storage buckets. With Cloud Storage FUSE, you can take advantage of the scale, affordability, throughput, and simplicity that Cloud Storage provides, while maintaining compatibility with applications that use or require filesystem semantics. Cloud Storage FUSE also now offers caching, which provides up to 2.2x faster time to train and 2.9x higher training throughput, compared to native ML framework dataloaders.

Inventory reports contain metadata information about your objects, such as the object's storage class, ETag, and content type. This information helps you analyze your storage costs, audit and validate your objects, and ensure data security and compliance. You can export inventory reports as comma-separated value (CSV) or Apache Parquet files so you can further analyze it using tools, such asBigQuery. Learn more about Storage Insights inventory reports.

Storage Transfer Service offers a highly performant, online pathway to Cloud Storage—both with the scalability and speed you need to simplify the data transfer process. For offline data transfer our Transfer Appliance is a shippable storage server that sits in your datacenter and then ships to an ingest location where the data is uploaded to Cloud Storage.

Cloud Storage offers secure-by-design features to protect your data and advanced controls and capabilities to keep your data private and secure against leaks or compromises. Security features include access control policies, data encryption, retention policies, retention policy locks, and signed URLs.

Define conditionsthat trigger data deletion or transition to a cheaper storage class.

Continue tostoreold copies of objects when they are deleted or overwritten.

Soft delete offers improved protection against accidental and malicious data deletion by providing you with a way to retain and restore recently deleted data.

Define minimumretention periodsthat objects must be stored for before they’re deletable.

Place a holdon an object to prevent its deletion.

Encrypt object data withencryption keyscreated and managed by you.

Requireaccessors of your datato include a project ID to bill for network charges, operation charges, and retrieval fees.

Bucket Lockallows you to configure a data retention policy for a Cloud Storage bucket that governs how long objects in the bucket must be retained.

Sendnotificationsto Pub/Sub when objects are created, updated, or deleted.

Maintainadmin activity logs and data access logs for your Cloud Storage resources.

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