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Google Cloud Storage

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What is Google Cloud Storage?

Google Cloud Storage is unified object storage for developers and enterprises.

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Cloud easy to use

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Adam Litvack
VP in Information Technology at Bagatelle (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Cloud to store all shared Google Docs including plans shared files. And images instead of emailing them back and forth with multiple versions. This way everyone has access to latest version at the same time.

Pros

  • Access
  • Versions
  • Speed

Cons

  • Export to excel and other apps
  • Permission for non Google users
  • Copy paste like an app

Return on Investment

  • Very cheap
  • Low toc
  • Easy to implement

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Azure Backup

Other Software Used

Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Azure Application Gateway

Intuitive Scalable and Seamless Why We Chose Google Cloud Storage over S3

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Cloud Storage is the main data hub for my work. For my specific work I use it to store CSV and parquets generated by user natural language query. With a storage policy we clean the buckets periodically to remove data that are not accessed frequently. Google Cloud Storage is easy to work with and when working with other services in GCP the integration is seamless.

Pros

  • Easy access with CLI tool
  • Easy to understand permission and policies
  • Intiutive UI in console

Cons

  • Sometime when deleting large amount of data, the progress is unclear
  • Changing bucket level permissions are sometimes unclear
  • The intial policy setting and learning curve was steep

Return on Investment

  • It reduced monthly data retention costs by 40% by utilizing Lifecycle Management
  • It decreased data retrieval times for analytics by 50%
  • Eliminated a lot in upfront server hardware purchases by switching to a pay-as-you-go cloud model

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Azure Blob Storage

Other Software Used

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker

Great for static files

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Cloud Storage for a few things. Primarily we use it to host static files for our web app, with a staging bucket for the staging environment and a production bucket for production. Additionally, we store user-uploaded assets like logo files in our buckets. We also store our Terraform state of our architecture in Google Cloud Storage.

Pros

  • Excellent Node SDK
  • Great web interface for management
  • Easy to use access management

Cons

  • Not very straightforward to integrate app authorization logic with Google Cloud Platform's authorization for files (better at fully public files)
  • Not ideal that if a bucket is public by default everything in it must be public

Return on Investment

  • Google Cloud Storage is very affordable

Alternatives Considered

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Other Software Used

Google Cloud Run, Netlify Platform, Google Cloud SQL

Superb software in the digital era

Incentivized
Dhiman RoyView profile
Officer in Customer Service at Sonali Bank Limited (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Secured storage
  • Easy access
  • Automatic back up system

Cons

  • Storage of the large data can be more easy
  • Filtering system can be improved
  • Pricing is high

Most Important Features

  • Easy access
  • Security is perfect
  • Share cloud with colleagues for project management

Return on Investment

  • This software is helping the organisation by securing the huge data
  • Can share cloud with colleagues for work practice
  • All can easily access to this software

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued), Microsoft Access and Kdan Mobile PDF Reader

Other Software Used

Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued), Kdan Mobile PDF Reader

Google Cloud Storage is Great!

Incentivized
Matthew BernsteinView profile
Account Executive in Marketing at Intersection Co. (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Unlimited storage.
  • High performance.
  • Allows for multiple cloud programs to save on one drive.

Cons

  • Hard to find files sometimes.
  • Not entirely intuitive.
  • UI/UX could use some improvements to make it easier to use.

Return on Investment

  • Lower storage cost.
  • Increased security.
  • Saves time.

Alternatives Considered

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Other Software Used

Google Hangouts Meet, Zoom, Cisco Webex Calling