April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
284 pages
6h 43m
English
Buckets are containers that hold your data. They are like directories in the computer file system and are basic containers where you put your data. The only difference is that you can't nest the buckets, unlike directories. Everything that you put in Cloud Storage must be inside a bucket. Buckets allow you to organize your data and also allow you to control access permissions to your data. When designing your application, you should plan fewer buckets and more objects in most cases due to some imposed rate limits of bucket creation and deletion. It is approximately 1 operation every 2 seconds per project.
You need to specify three things when you create a bucket: a globally unique name, a default storage class, and a geographic location ...