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Google Cloud Storage Overview

What is Google Cloud Storage?

Cloud Storage is a managed service for storing unstructured data, like videos and documents. It is most commonly used for data lakes for analytics, storing AI data, or web hosting. With Cloud Storage you can store any amount of data, and retrieve it as often as you like. New customers can use $300 in free credits to try Cloud Storage. All customers get 5 GiB of US regional storage free per month, not charged against your credits. If you’re a consumer or business looking for file sharing, check out Workspace products like Google Drive (https://workspace.google.com/products/drive/). If you’re looking for photo storage, use Google Photos (www.google.com/photos)

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Product Description

Google Cloud Storage is unified object storage for developers and enterprises, from live data serving to data analytics/ML to data archiving.

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Google Cloud Storage is a robust, reliable, and scalable object storage service that offers a broad range of features and capabilities at a competitive price.


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There are a lot of security features in Google Cloud Storage, like encryption, access control, and audit logging, so it's highly reliable. In addit...
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Easy to use with supporting storage of all type of data with different classes of storage and pricing
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Google Cloud Storage Media

Google Cloud Storage Demo - Use Cloud Storage for backup, archives, and recovery
Cloud Storage's nearline storage provides fast, low-cost, highly durable storage for data accessed less than once a month, 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 cla...
Google Cloud Storage Demo - Store data to stream audio or video
Stream audio or video directly to apps or websites with Cloud Storage’s geo-redundant capabilities. 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.
Google Cloud Storage Demo - Create a data lake for analytics
Develop and deploy data pipelines and storage to analyze large amounts of data. Cloud Storage offers high availability and performance while being strongly consistent, giving you confidence and accuracy in analytics workloads.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Storage?

I've always been an android user and have loved how seamless the Google cloud integration to Android has been. Also being able to access my files from basically anywhere is extremely important. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Storage?

They are one of the more expensive cloud storage solutions that I've used. Otherwise I cannot think of anything else I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?

Just the overall ease of use, Clean interfaces, user friendly so that even those with minimal tech backgrounds can easily work with the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud?

What I appreciate most about Google Cloud is its blend of services strong infrastructure and a steadfast dedication, to maintaining security. Google Cloud offers a range of services, including machine learning and big data analytics empowering businesses to foster innovation and remain competitive. They achieve this while also benefiting from the reliability and scalability provided by Google's network of data centers. The robust security features and compliance certifications provide a sense of assurance while the flexible pricing options and seamless integration with Google services make it an excellent choice, for organizations seeking to leverage the potential of cloud computing while managing costs and staying interconnected within the broader Google ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud?

One issue I've faced when using Google Cloud is the intricacy of its pricing system, which can be overwhelming, for users and necessitates monitoring to prevent any expenses. Furthermore, although Google Cloud provides documentation there are gaps that can cause confusion and getting familiar, with the extensive range of services might require some time. Moreover, the costs associated with data egress and premium customer support options can be quite high potentially affecting the budgets of businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Google Cloud has been a game changer, for our organization. It addresses issues such as scalability, data analytics, global reach, security, collaboration and cost management. With its capabilities we can effectively handle varying workloads to achieve performance and cost efficiency. We rely on data analytics and machine learning services to obtain insights while the global infrastructure guarantees accessible resources, with high availability and low latency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud Storage?

- Feature like v4 sugned url that completly eliminate the server load to process secondary image

- Easy to integrate

- Reliable and cost effective solution to manage secondary files like image, videos etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Storage?

- I integrated it for a e-commerce application, using nodejs. I feels the documentation can be improved,

- Relatively small community: As compared to other like AWS, GCP still have small community, which seems to be drawback Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?

As we have utilised it in e-commerce application, so we have lots of imaage to be served to. user. We were in search of solution that can totally eliminate utilising our web server for image processing. So we utiised the google cloud storage V4 signed url.

After integrating it, we have totally eliminated the main server for performing operation like reading, writting, updation of images . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud Storage?

As a Google-certified Associate Cloud Engineer, I value Google Cloud Storage for its seamless integration with Google Cloud services, global reach, scalability, data durability, security, versatility, cost-efficiency, and strong documentation. It empowers businesses to efficiently manage and store data while maintaining high standards of reliability and security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Storage?

While Google Cloud Storage has many merits, a few areas could be enhanced.

I feel the pricing can be brought on a bit conservative side.

Also, the learning curve can be complex for some users, so providing more user-friendly resources would enhance the overall experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?

Google Cloud Storage (GCS) accommodates traffic spikes, reducing server costs, and enhancing global content delivery. It offers data redundancy, security, simplified maintenance, and efficient backup and restoration, ensuring a high-performing, cost-effective, and secure website hosting solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud Storage?

I use the GCP services in my current work organisation. We use its GCP pub/sub event feature. The feature I like the most is cloud function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Storage?

Google cloud services are a bit expensive, apart from these there are fewer data centers available as compared the to its competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem that gcp is solving is great. Currently lot and lots of software products coming up that need cloud services to run, if they want to quickly bring product to the customer. We as organisation have choosed gcp because of ease of integration for ex. Pub/sub etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud?

Where do I even begin with Google Cloud? First off, it's at the core of how we transfer files and imagery back and forth within our organization. It's so easy for us to track files back and forth and we use it on a daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud?

We avoid using Google Cloud for any data/material that would be sensitive or proprietary given that we aren't sure that Google can safeguard our data in the way that's needed. Security is a big focus for us and we wish Google Cloud had more safety precautions in place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Google Cloud helps us not only transfer data/imagery back and forth within the organization but we also use it to visualize various datasets using Looker Studio. The seamless integration of having the Google data backend to house our data is super helpful in making sure reporting is done effortlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud?

Its very easy to integrated all google cloud tools and every tool can be easily connected to one another and every tool can be simply manged by authentication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud?

Some of the tools are pretty costly in comparison of its peers and there are few limitations like managing widlcard subdomains and SSL certificates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were using google cloud for our webapp and used firestore, google cloud deployment, task runner,bigquery and anayltics tools all in one project and conencting all this were seamless and its easy to increase the capacitites like CPU and memory on the run time which helped us in scalling our webapp. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud Storage?

Google Cloud Storage s amazing! It is very secure and a reliable place to store all my files! I can have several people working on the same files as well. I have found that the prcing is also quite reasonable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Storage?

I have to admit that I have not really encountered any downsides of Google Cloud storgae. It has worked well for me and there is plenty of support offered if there is an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?

Google Cloud Storage is a amazing technology that I have found to be a secure place to store all of my legal educational documentation. I can access my data from anywhere as well which means I can hold my meetings anywhere I go - or even my colleagues. With a limited budget, I have found that teh Google Cloud Storage is the best option for my business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud Storage?

Google cloud storage allows me to get more space for my important things such as mails, photos, drive and other important things too. It's easy to use for everyone. The customer service is fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Storage?

The pricing, as an Indian paying this much amount for every year is little bit hard for me. This is the only thing I dislike about the Google cloud storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?

Personally I am using it for storage purpose only but my company is using Google cloud storage for website as well. So I can say that storage, hosting, website performance are kne of the major benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud?

The best thing about Google Cloud is its scalability, advanced data analytics, and strong AL and ML integration. And its infrastructure is optimal at the global level also the security is fabulous. Google Cloud supports hybrid and multi-cloud solutions which provides flexibility in deployment strategies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud?

Disliking part of Google Cloud includes the complex pricing structure and a smaller market share compared to AWS and Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Google Cloud addresses challenges related to scalability, data management, cost efficiency, and innovation. It benefits businesses and users by providing a platform for flexible scaling, and efficient data handling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.