Google Cloud Platform for Architects

Transfer Service or gsutil?

There are no extra costs to using the Transfer Service; billing is the same as with gsutil or the web console. Google's docs recommend that we prefer gustil if we are copying files over from on-premise. If we are ingesting data from AWS or Azure, or from an external HTTP location, then transfer service is preferable.

Transfer service will only help get data into GCP, not out of it (this is important – do remember it):

1. Click on Hamburger (the three horizontal lines in the upper-left corner) on the GCP console.
2. Find Storage and click on the Transfer option.
3. When you get the dialog box, click on the Create Transfer button.
4. You will land on a transfer job creation page. Here, you will have to first select the source ...