Storage

Documentation and resources for data storage on Google Cloud, including transfer, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.

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Explore storage in Google Cloud

Read documentation and Cloud Architecture Center articles about storage products, capabilities, and procedures.
Learn about Cloud Storage, including how it works and what tools you can use to store your data.
Learn about Filestore as a network-attached file storage option.
Back up and recover your data resources.
Get fully-managed volume provisioning for your file-based applications.
Learn the storage options that GKE supports and considerations for selecting the best option for your needs.
Learn the storage options that Compute Engine supports and considerations for selecting the best option for your needs.

Training, blog articles, and more

Go to training courses, blog articles, and other related resources.
Learn about how NetApp Volumes provides high-performance file storage for demanding enterprise applications and workloads.
View an example of how Filestore integration with GKE can significantly accelerate your AI/ML workload performance.
Study creating, performing basics tasks, and managing object retention with Cloud Storage.
Study using the gcloud CLI command-line tool, APIs, and the APIs Explorer tool with Cloud Storage.
Study how to store, protect, and govern your data.
View a decision tree to choose storage options to meet your workload needs.

Storage products by use case

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Create and execute backup plans for databases, VMs, and file systems to protect all of your data resources consistently and efficiently.

A managed backup and disaster recovery (DR) service for centralized and application-consistent data protection.
Protect, manage, and restore your containerized applications and data for workloads running on GKE clusters.
Create and execute backup plans for your VMware VMs.
Create and execute backup plans for your Microsoft SQL Server databases.
Create and execute backup plans for your Compute Engine instances.
Create and execute backup plans for your SAP HANA databases in Compute Engine instances.
Review and report on the backup status of your data resources.

Choose your block, file, or object storage options.

Store objects with global edge caching.
Create fully managed, high-performance NFS file servers on Google Cloud.
A fully managed, cloud-based data storage service that provides advanced data management capabilities and highly scalable performance.
A fully managed, low-latency distributed file system designed to meet the demands of high performance computing (HPC) and data-intensive applications.
Persistent Disk volumes are durable network storage devices that your VMs can access like physical disks in a desktop or a server.
A scalable, high-performance storage service with a comprehensive suite of data persistence and management capabilities.

Transfer your data into, within, or from Google Cloud.

Transfer data between Cloud Storage services such as AWS S3 and Cloud Storage.
Ship large volumes of data to Google Cloud using rackable storage.
Optimize share usage within your Filestore instances.
Transfer your data from S3 or Azure into Cloud Storage.
A service for backing up and restoring workloads in GKE clusters.
Store, process, and secure large amounts of structured, semistructured, and unstructured data in its native format and process any variety of it.
Use a powerful, simple, and cost-effective object storage service built for Google scale.
Generate inventory reports containing metadata information about your objects.
Store, share, and collaborate on files and folders from your mobile device, tablet, or computer.
Plan and evaluate the features, design options, and relative advantages of block storage, file storage, and object storage services.
Plan using content resources across a wide variety of storage subjects.