Cloud Bytes — selected guide
Cloud Storage in a minute
Twelve one-minute orientations across compute, data, operations, networking, and security
Twelve short primers introduce the roles of Google Cloud compute, storage, databases, messaging, analytics, observability, networking, and access controls. These 2020–2022 overviews help orient service choices rather than provide deployment recipes.
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Cloud Storage stores objects such as images, videos, and documents in containers called buckets. This 2020 primer explains how applications upload and retrieve those objects, then choose storage classes according to how often the data is needed 00:00–01:04(opens in a new tab).
Key Points Covered
- Applications exchange objects through buckets: The primer shows uploads and downloads through project-associated buckets, with console and
gsutilaccess 00:00(opens in a new tab). - Storage classes represent access patterns: Standard, Nearline, Coldline, and Archive are mapped to progressively less frequent access in the 2020 product and pricing model 00:00(opens in a new tab).
- Automate moves as data ages: Object Lifecycle Management can transition data to lower-cost classes when it reaches a specified age or when a newer version is stored. Applications use the same API to access objects across storage classes 01:04–01:45(opens in a new tab).
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNOs3LlsH6k(opens in a new tab)