Chapter 11
Planning Storage in the Cloud
THIS CHAPTER COVERS THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES OF THE GOOGLE ASSOCIATE CLOUD ENGINEER CERTIFICATION EXAM:
2.3 Planning and configuring data storage options
As a cloud engineer, you will have to understand the various storage options provided in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will be expected to choose the appropriate option for a given use case while knowing the relative trade-offs, such as having access to SQL for a query language versus the ability to store and query petabytes of data streaming into your database.
Unlike most other chapters in the book, this chapter focuses more on storage concepts than on performing specific tasks in GCP. The material here will help you answer questions about choosing the best storage solution. Chapter 12 will provide details on deploying and implementing data solutions.
To choose between storage options, it helps to understand how storage solutions vary by:
- Time to access data
- Data...
