In the previous two chapters, we learned about important topics in networking and compute services. We will continue now with another fundamental offering by GCP—storage. Every application needs to store data, but not all data is the same. Data could be structured, unstructured, relational, or transactional, and GCP offers services to meet these requirements. Your application may even require the use of multiple storage services to achieve your needs.

In this chapter, we will look at the different types of storage offered by Google and explain what should be considered before selecting a particular service. Google provides numerous storage options, and covering all of these in a single chapter may make the facts difficult for you to digest. Therefore, we have divided this chapter into two parts.

In part one, we will consider which...