Google Cloud online 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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Category	Products	Good for
AI Hypercomputer Storage	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
	Rapid storage A new Cloud Storage zonal bucket, providing industry-leading latency and throughput in line with the high performance of a distributed file system.	Low latency AI/ML training and checkpointing Workloads that need fast, appendable writes
	Google Cloud Managed Lustre and Parallelstore 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
	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
	Hyperdisk ML Block storage engineered to maximize machine learning performance.	Workloads with large model sizes Accelerating model loading for fast inference Preventing idle time from storage bottlenecks
Object 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.	Stream videos Image and web asset libraries Data lakes
Object storage	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	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	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
	Parallelstore High bandwidth, high IOPS, ultra-low latency, managed parallel file service.	AI/ML workload scratch space High performance quantitative analysis Complex modeling and simulation
	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	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
Data transfer	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 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 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