Cloud Storage

Question 1

What is Cloud Storage?

Answer 1

Cloud Storage is an object storage solution offered by Google. An object is essentially data in any file format.

Question 2

What are the 2 components that makeup an object?

Answer 2

1. Object data
2. Object metadata

Object data are binaries that makeup the file.
Object metadata are key-value pairs that provide information about the object.

Question 3

What are the 2 components that makeup an objects identity within a bucket?

Answer 3

1. Name
2. Generation number

The name is provided by the user and the generation number is automatically created by Cloud Storage. Together, they identify an object within a bucket.

Question 4

How large can objects be?

Answer 4

5 TB

Question 5

For what type of data is Cloud Storage normally used for?

Answer 5

1. Images
2. Audio
3. Videos
4. Blobs

Question 6

What are the 3 available location modes for Cloud Storage Buckets and what is their tradeoff?

Answer 6

1. Multi-region
2. Dual-region
3. Single-region

The more regions, the greater the latency but the greater the availability and vise versa.