Cloud Storage Options

Google Cloud storage products

Cloud-based storage services for your business, all running on Google Cloud’s infrastructure. If you’re a consumer looking for file sharing, use Google Drive. If you’re looking for photo storage, use Google Photos.

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AI Hypercomputer Storage

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Anywhere Cache

The easiest way to cache a Cloud Storage bucket data closer to GPU/TPUs and accelerate data access.

  • Accelerating reads even from existing buckets

  • Faster AI/ML training and inference

  • Cost savings for dual and multi-region buckets

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Google Cloud Managed Lustre

High bandwidth, high IOPS, ultra-low latency managed parallel file systems.

  • Lifting and shifting AI workloads to the cloud

  • Accelerating distributed AI training, checkpointing, and inference workloads

  • Extremely high throughput for HPC

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Cloud Storage FUSE and Hierarchical Namespace

Highly performant file-like access to object storage buckets.

  • AI checkpointing and metadata management

  • Faster model loading and efficient data access

Object storage

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Cloud Storage

Object storage for companies. Store any type of data, any amount of data, and retrieve it as often as you’d like.

  • Stream videos

  • Image and web asset libraries

  • Data lakes

Launch or learn about a preconfigured web app

Using enterprise-ready object storage, this interactive solution deploys a sample dropship website to familiarize you with Google Cloud.

  • Deploy full solution in 10 minutes

  • Recommended by Google Cloud experts

  • Fully preconfigured

Block storage

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Hyperdisk, Persistent Disk, and Local SSD

Reliable, high-performance block storage for virtual machine instances.

  • SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL server

  • Run PostgreSQL, MySQL, and modern databases

  • Scale out analytics (Example: Hadoop and Kafka)

  • Performance-critical applications

File storage

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Filestore

Fully managed service for file migration and storage. Easily mount file shares on Compute Engine VMs.

  • Data analytics

  • Rendering and media processing

  • Application migrations

  • Web content management

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Managed Lustre

High bandwidth, high IOPS, ultra-low latency, managed parallel file service.

  • AI/ML training and inference

  • High performance quantitative analysis

  • Complex modeling and simulation

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes

NetApp's best-in-class file storage service, in Google Cloud.

  • Data sharing for Windows and Linux

  • Data recovery after ransomware, corruption, or loss

  • Meeting mandates for uptime, availability, and security

Archival storage

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Cloud Storage

Ultra low-cost archival storage with online access speeds.

  • Backups

  • Media archives

  • Long-tail content

  • Meet regulation or compliance requirements

Data transfer

Data Transfer Services

Tools to help you perform a data transfer, either from another cloud provider or from your private data center.

  • Collecting research data

  • Moving ML/AI training datasets

  • Migrating from S3 to Google Cloud

Transfer Appliance

Ruggedized server to collect and physically move data from field locations with limited connectivity or from data centers.

  • Transfer data for archival, migrations, or analytics

  • Capture sensor data for machine learning and analysis

  • Move data from bandwidth-constrained locations

Backup and disaster recovery

Google Cloud Backup and DR

Managed backup and disaster recovery (DR) service for centralized, application-consistent data protection. 

  • Protect Compute Engine VMs, VMware VMs, databases, and file systems

  • Back up on-premises workloads to Google Cloud

Mobile app services

Cloud Storage for Firebase

Cloud Storage for Firebase

Scalable storage for user-generated content from your app.

  • User-generated content

  • Uploads over mobile networks

  • Robust uploads and downloads

  • Strong user-based security

Collaboration, communication, and file storage

Google Workspace

Google Workspace

Store all of your organization’s content safely and securely in the cloud.

  • Access files from anywhere with Drive

  • Collaborate on content in Docs, Sheets, and Slides

  • Stay connected with your colleagues through Gmail, Calendar, Chat, and Meet

Build artifacts

Artifact Registry

A universal repository manager for container images, OS packages, and language packages that you build and deploy.

  • Direct integration with CI/CD pipelines

  • Centralize storage of container images, OS packages, and language packages

  • Built-in container scanning for vulnerabilities

Find the right cloud storage product for your business

hyperdisk

Anywhere Cache

The easiest way to cache a Cloud Storage bucket data closer to GPU/TPUs and accelerate data access.

  • Accelerating reads even from existing buckets

  • Faster AI/ML training and inference

  • Cost savings for dual and multi-region buckets

cloud storage

Cloud Storage

Object storage for companies. Store any type of data, any amount of data, and retrieve it as often as you’d like.

  • Image and web asset libraries

hyperdisk

Hyperdisk, Persistent Disk, and Local SSD

Reliable, high-performance block storage for virtual machine instances.

  • SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL server

  • Run PostgreSQL, MySQL, and modern databases

  • Scale out analytics (Example: Hadoop and Kafka)

  • Performance-critical applications

storage

Filestore

Fully managed service for file migration and storage. Easily mount file shares on Compute Engine VMs.

  • Rendering and media processing

cloud storage

Cloud Storage

Ultra low-cost archival storage with online access speeds.

  • Meet regulation or compliance requirements

Data Transfer Services

Tools to help you perform a data transfer, either from another cloud provider or from your private data center.

  • Moving ML/AI training datasets

  • Migrating from S3 to Google Cloud

Google Cloud Backup and DR

Managed backup and disaster recovery (DR) service for centralized, application-consistent data protection. 

  • Protect Compute Engine VMs, VMware VMs, databases, and file systems

  • Back up on-premises workloads to Google Cloud

Cloud Storage for Firebase

Cloud Storage for Firebase

Scalable storage for user-generated content from your app.

  • Uploads over mobile networks

  • Robust uploads and downloads

  • Strong user-based security

Google Workspace

Google Workspace

Store all of your organization’s content safely and securely in the cloud.

  • Access files from anywhere with Drive

  • Collaborate on content in Docs, Sheets, and Slides

  • Stay connected with your colleagues through Gmail, Calendar, Chat, and Meet

Artifact Registry

A universal repository manager for container images, OS packages, and language packages that you build and deploy.

  • Direct integration with CI/CD pipelines

  • Centralize storage of container images, OS packages, and language packages

  • Built-in container scanning for vulnerabilities

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