What does object storage look like? - Google Cloud Tutorial

- [Presenter] Welcome to Object Storage on GCP. I'm really excited today to talk to you about how you can take advantage of Object Storage and how you can migrate data into it. But the first thing I want to ask you is what product or service could you build today if you had the ability to store data all around the world with the ability to have it backed up automatically because what I want you to do next is learn exactly what object storage is and how you can use it to store data along with setting up a Cloud Storage bucket in GCP. Setting up the Cloud Storage bucket. What we've done here is we've gone to the Google Cloud Storage website and what we want to do is get a really good understanding of what the storage classes are and the different options you can choose from. So we're going to scroll down here and look at these available storage classes and this is ultimately kind of the backbone in when setting up your Cloud Storage bucket because when you choose standard storage, you could see the minimum storage duration is set to none. And ultimately that this means you can delete data, you can add data, you don't have to keep data for a certain amount of time or pay different costs based on duration. And you can see it's 99.99% in all regions as far as availability goes. Nearline storage is 30 days for the minimum duration to get that pricing, coldline storage is 90 days and then archive storage is set at 365 days. And last but not least, we're going to help you decide on which one to use based on your use case or problem you're trying to solve. Okay, so for example, what I'd like to show you here is a very good use case of if you have a bunch of media files and you're trying to deliver media streaming capability to your clients, Cloud Storage gives you that capability because you could store all your media files in a Cloud Storage bucket as you see here in the middle of the screen and your application can be running on compute engine which is for virtual machines and when you move the data into it, you batch load it all in and we're going to talk about migration path, a little bit later on in this course. You will ultimately be able to deliver and stream this information to your customers using something like Cloud CDN to speed it up or you can use some other type of network using some various partners. So this is a very good use case for Cloud Storage media files and ingesting a bunch of data, migrating it in. And hopefully this gives you a good understanding of what you can do with it.