Cloud Storage is fully managed and can scale dynamically. It is commonly used for object storage, video transcoding, video streaming, static web pages, and backup. It is designed to provide secure and durable storage while also offering optimal pricing and performance for your requirements through different storage classes.

Cloud Storage uses the concept of buckets; you may be familiar with this term if you have used AWS S3 storage. A bucket is the basic container where your data will reside and is attached to a GCP project, such as other GCP services. Each bucket name is globally unique and once created you cannot change it. There is no minimum or maximum storage size, and we only pay for what we actually use. Access to our buckets can be controlled in several ways. We will speak more on security in Chapter 13, Security and Compliance, but as an overview...