Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage provides worldwide, highly durable object storage that scales to exabytes of data. You can access data instantly from any storage class, integrate storage into your applications with a single unified API, and easily optimize price and performance.
- Optimize price and performance across storage classes with Object Lifecycle Management
- Designed for secure and durable storage
- Reduce data storage carbon emissions to zero
Key features
Storage classes determine the availability and pricing model that apply to the data you store in Cloud Storage.
Cloud Storage has an ever-growing list of worldwide locations where you can store your data with multiple automatic redundancy options.
Configure your data to automatically transition to lower-cost storage classes when it meets the criteria you specify, such as when it reaches a certain age or when you’ve stored a newer version of the data.
Customer stories
Broad Institute uses Cloud Storage for its in-house genome sequence analysis to achieve greater speed, scalability, and data security.
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Analyzes genomes 400% faster with Google Cloud
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Protects genomic data by governing privacy, data access, and use
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Scales to meet spikes in demand for processing and storage
Industry
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Healthcare and life sciences
What’s new
Documentation
Quickstart: Using the Console
Learn the fundamentals of buckets and storing your data and interact with Cloud Storage through the Google Cloud Console.
Quickstart: Using the gsutil tool
Learn the fundamentals of buckets and storing your data and interact with Cloud Storage through the command-line tool, gsutil.
Cloud Storage Client Libraries
Client libraries enable you to interact with Cloud Storage using popular programming languages.
Common use cases
Integrated repository for analytics and machine learning
The highest level of availability and performance within a single region is ideal for compute, analytics, and ML workloads in a particular region. Cloud Storage is also strongly consistent, giving you confidence and accuracy in analytics workloads.
Media content storage and delivery
Geo-redundant storage with the highest level of availability and performance is ideal for low-latency, high-QPS content serving to users distributed across geographic regions. Cloud Storage provides the availability and throughput needed to stream audio or video directly to apps or websites.
Backups and archives
Cloud Storage provides fast, low-cost, highly durable storage for data accessed less than once a month. Perfect for reducing the cost of backups and archives while still retaining immediate access. Backup data in Cloud Storage can be used for more than just recovery because all storage classes have ms latency and are accessed through a single API.
All features
| Object Lifecycle Management | Define conditions that trigger data deletion or transition to a cheaper storage class. |
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| Object Versioning | Continue to store old copies of objects when they are deleted or overwritten. |
| Retention policies | Define minimum retention periods that objects must be stored for before they’re deletable. |
| Object holds | Place a hold on an object to prevent its deletion. |
| Customer-managed encryption keys | Encrypt object data with encryption keys stored by the Cloud Key Management Service and managed by you. |
| Customer-supplied encryption keys | Encrypt object data with encryption keys created and managed by you. |
| Uniform bucket-level access | Uniformly control access to your Cloud Storage resources by disabling object ACLs. |
| Requester Pays | Require accessors of your data to include a project ID to bill for network charges, operation charges, and retrieval fees. |
| Pub/Sub Notifications for Cloud Storage | Send notifications to Pub/Sub when objects are created, updated, or deleted. |
| Cloud Audit Logs with Cloud Storage | Maintain admin activity logs and data access logs for your Cloud Storage resources. |
Pricing
Pricing for Cloud Storage is based on what you use, including the amount of data you store, the duration for which you store it, the number of operations you perform on your data, and the network resources used when moving or accessing your data. For “cold” storage classes meant to store long-term, infrequently accessed data, there are also charges for retrieving data and early deletion of data.
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