In this chapter, we will look at GCP storage options and services. GCP has a strong suite of storage offerings that will meet your needs for structured, unstructured, transactional, and relational data. We have often seen, in previous chapters, that persistent storage is attached to your compute instances. We will begin this chapter by learning a bit more about persistent storage, local SSDs, and Google Cloud Storage buckets.

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Persistent storage
• Google Cloud Storage buckets
• Google Cloud Spanner
• Google Cloud SQL
• Google Cloud Bigtable