As mentioned previously, many Cloud Storage features can be applied at both the bucket level and the object level. This is the case with storage classes. A bucket itself doesn't have a storage class - rather, it has a default storage class. When an object is created within this bucket, it will inherit the bucket's default storage class, unless a different storage class is explicitly provided.
Looking back at our earlier hello-cloud-storage example, we didn't specify a default storage class when creating our bucket. Because of this, Cloud Storage created the bucket with a default storage class of STANDARD. When we uploaded hello.txt to our bucket, it inherited the STANDARD storage class as well. We can double ...