Google Cloud Platform for Developers

Persistent disks

When working in cloud environments such as Compute Engine, there are several considerations that need to be made when it comes to disk storage. Virtual machines may be easily recreated, but that isn't always the case with data. To provide the same level of flexibility and availability for storage that Google brings to VMs, Compute Engine offers persistent disks as a block storage solution.

Persistent disks are network attached drives that have been engineered to provide extremely consistent IO performance within Google's datacenters. These disks are available in both standard platter and SSD, and Compute Engine provides a number of methods to act on them. Instead of a physical disk, every persistent disk on Compute Engine ...