Google Cloud Platform in Action

Chapter 8. Cloud Storage: object storage

This chapter covers

• What is object storage?
• What is Cloud Storage?
• Interacting with Cloud Storage
• Access control and lifecycle configuration
• Deciding whether Cloud Storage is a good fit

If you’ve ever built an application that involves storing an image (such as a user’s profile photo), you’ve run into the problem of deciding where to put that photo. Chances are that to keep making progress on your project, you went with the easiest place: right in your database or on your local filesystem. This works for a little while, but if your website becomes popular, the disk that holds all of these images and videos might get overwhelmed. This is the exact problem that object storage services aim to solve. ...